In this article we bring a critical social-psychological approach to the study of sexual citizenship. This approach seeks to understand how citizenship is constructed through ideological resources and negotiated in local contexts. We do so by studying newspaper representations of the Civil Union (CU) law in the Cypriot context. This law represented a major legal development for a largely heteronormative, patriarchic social context and sparked debate around sexual rights in general. We analysed 82 opinion articles that appeared in four newspapers of different political orientations between 2011 and 2015, through thematic and critical discourse analysis. The analysis revealed that CU was debated in terms of two oppositional themes. The first theme debated whether CU protects universal rights or introduces special rights, which are either not deserved or create inequality. The second theme approached the CU law as a sign of a much-needed societal progress or as a sign of decline and national degeneration. We show how these themes draw upon two broader ideological dilemmas, that of universalism versus particularism and that of Occidentalism versus Orientalism, and discuss the implications of these ideological streams in constructing the boundaries of citizenship for LGBT+ in this context.

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性公民的困境：对希族塞人报纸中民事结合法陈述的批判性社会心理分析

在本文中，我们为研究性公民引入了一种批判性的社会心理学方法。这种方法旨在了解公民身份如何通过意识形态资源构建并在当地环境中进行协商。我们通过研究塞浦路斯背景下民事联盟 (CU) 法的报纸表述来做到这一点。该法律代表了主要异性恋、父权制社会背景下的重大法律发展，并引发了关于一般性权利的辩论。我们通过主题和批判性话语分析，分析了 2011 年至 2015 年间出现在四种不同政治取向的报纸上的 82 篇意见文章。分析表明，就两个对立的主题对 CU 进行了辩论。第一个主题是关于 CU 是保护普遍权利还是引入特殊权利，这要么不值得，要么造成不平等。第二个主题将 CU 法律视为急需的社会进步的标志或作为衰落和国家退化的标志。我们展示了这些主题如何利用两个更广泛的意识形态困境，即普遍主义与特殊主义以及西方主义与东方主义，并讨论这些意识形态流在在这种情况下为 LGBT+ 构建公民身份边界的含义。