ABSTRACT
This chapter points to the emergence in recent years of 'global gay governance' (GGG). It is important to recognise just how fragile this emerging phenomenon is. The chapter shows that the emergence of homoglobalism is fragile and dependent upon factors that are politically, temporally and also, to some degree, personally contingent. It also shows that gay governance occurs at the municipal, national and global levels. It focuses on GGG at the level of global institutions. The chapter highlights some common challenges presented to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) human rights advocates by both tracks of homoglobalism: the financial and the human rights dimensions. It argues that in assessing the trend towards GGG there is a need to carry out a cost-benefit analysis that assesses the promise of advancing LGBT rights at the global level against the risk of co-option by global institutions for their own purposes.
