Sri Lanka has debated the decriminalization of homosexuality for several decades, but never with more vigour than in 2017, when the government considered this legislative change. This project was eventually abandoned, inspiring fierce opposition by local ‘LGBT’ non-governmental organizations (NGOs), resulting in an escalation of advocacy work in the country. This article interrogates the capacity ‘LGBT’ NGOs possess to (re)produce forms of structural violence and reify new idioms of normativity as they seek to emancipate the queer figure. The site of conflict between the state and civil society is rife with the problematics of nation and capital, for the NGO reifies ethno-nationalism and capitalist social cleavages. Meanwhile, reliance on material support from the Global North renders these organizations enmeshed in transnational neoliberal politics. In negotiating the narcissistic desires of state and global hegemonies, and the crisis of legitimacy that emerges through these encounters, NGOs demarcate a specifically interpellated figure as the normative ‘LGBT’ citizen, thereby collapsing a range of queer desires to flat, restrictive ontologies that exclude many. Using interviews, informal conversations and observations gleaned through an ethnography on genders and sexualities in Sri Lanka, this article explores the institutional politics of queer liberation in Sri Lanka, enmeshed as they are in the myriad complexities of postcolonial neoliberal modernity.

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暴力合法化：“同性恋权利”非政府组织和对斯里兰卡酷儿形象的惩戒

几十年来，斯里兰卡一直在辩论同性恋的非刑事化，但从未像 2017 年那样激烈，当时政府考虑了这一立法变化。该项目最终被放弃，激起了当地“LGBT”非政府组织 (NGO) 的强烈反对，导致该国的宣传工作升级。本文探讨了“LGBT”非政府组织在寻求解放酷儿形象时具有（重新）制造结构性暴力形式并具体化新的规范性习语的能力。国家和公民社会之间的冲突现场充斥着国家和资本的问题，因为非政府组织具体化了民族民族主义和资本主义社会分裂。同时，依赖全球北方的物质支持使这些组织陷入跨国新自由主义政治。在协商国家和全球霸权的自恋欲望，以及通过这些遭遇出现的合法性危机时，非政府组织将一个特别被质询的人物划定为规范的“LGBT”公民，从而将一系列酷儿欲望瓦解为扁平的、限制性的本体论，排除许多。本文通过对斯里兰卡性别和性的民族志的采访、非正式对话和观察，探讨了斯里兰卡酷儿解放的制度政治，因为它们陷入了后殖民新自由主义现代性的无数复杂之中。以及通过这些遭遇而出现的合法性危机，非政府组织将一个特别被质询的人物划定为规范的“LGBT”公民，从而将一系列酷儿欲望瓦解为扁平的、限制性的本体论，将许多人排除在外。本文通过对斯里兰卡性别和性的民族志的采访、非正式对话和观察，探讨了斯里兰卡酷儿解放的制度政治，因为它们陷入了后殖民新自由主义现代性的无数复杂之中。以及通过这些遭遇而出现的合法性危机，非政府组织将一个特别被质询的人物划定为规范的“LGBT”公民，从而将一系列酷儿欲望瓦解为扁平的、限制性的本体论，将许多人排除在外。本文通过对斯里兰卡性别和性的民族志的采访、非正式对话和观察，探讨了斯里兰卡酷儿解放的制度政治，因为它们陷入了后殖民新自由主义现代性的无数复杂之中。