ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relationship between research, activism and politics. It explores how Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) issues are translated into policies or demands, to understand if queerness can still escape from the politically sedative articulation of a homonormative sexual citizenship. The chapter asks critical questions about the relationship between social structure, collective action and sexual politics in a neoliberal regime of governance. Shaped by the expansion of neoliberalism in the last 40 years, LGBT policies in Western Europe have moved from a focus on the fight for civil and social rights to a defence of personal security, thus changing the subject of policies from an active agent of change to a consumer citizen. In February 2001, the Turin City Council, after a proposal by the "GLBT Turin Pride Coordination", founded the 'Office for the overcoming of discriminations based on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity'.
