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Transnational LGBT Activism argues that the ideaof LGBT human rights is not predetermined but instead is defined byinternational activists who establish what and who qualifies for protection.The result is a uniquely balanced, empirical response to previous critiques ofWestern human rights activists-and a clarifying perspective on the nature andpractice of global human rights advocacy. 

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The first of its kind, this book responds in a balanced, self-reflexive, nuanced, empirically-based way to a number of sharp critiques of Western human rights activists, frameworks and 'imperialisms.' With careful ethnographic observation in a series of case studies, Ryan R. Thoreson makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on human rights, on global sexualities and, hence, to the cause of sexual minority rights in the global South and Africa in particular. -Marc Epprecht, Queen's University This groundbreaking book provides a first-ever in-depth, ethnographic examination of the internal process of a northern NGO focused on LGBT rights in global context. -Amy Lind, University of Cincinnati

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Ryan R. Thoreson, a JD candidate at Yale Law School, is a former Scott Hitt Research Fellow at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

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