The LGBT Action Plan (2018) represents a significant UK government commitment towards LGBTQI+ equalities, operating in conjunction with cumulative legislative advances. Yet there is room for critique within this Plan, as proposed actions and as celebratory rhetoric of lives ‘getting better’. Using empirical examples, this article examines how ‘progress’ for LGBTQI+ lives is discursively constructed and positioned in the LGBT Action Plan and accompanying politicians’ speeches. We examine the key constructions of progress – across time, place, lifecourses, and normative thresholds – within which LGBTQI+ rights and realities are framed. We draw upon queer theory to illuminate discursive normativities and silences in representing ‘policy problems’ (Bacchi, 2009). While some policy areas are celebrated as signifiers of ‘coming forward’, others are relegated to the too tough in-tray, suspended in enduring stasis. Opposing ‘political time’ with ‘queer time’, this article concludes with the policy challenges posed by intersectional (in)equalities in these ‘new times’.

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英国政府 LGBT 行动计划：关于进步、持久停滞和 LGBTQI+ 生活“变得更好”的论述

LGBT 行动计划（2018 年）代表了英国政府对 LGBTQI+ 平等的重大承诺，与累积的立法进步相结合。然而，在该计划中仍有批评的余地，如提议的行动和生活“变得更好”的庆祝辞藻。本文使用实证案例研究了 LGBTQI+ 生活的“进步”是如何在 LGBT 行动计划和随附的政治家演讲中话语构建和定位的。我们研究了关键的进步结构——跨越时间、地点、生命历程和规范阈值——在其中框架 LGBTQI+ 权利和现实。我们利用酷儿理论来阐明表述“政策问题”时的话语规范性和沉默（Bacchi，2009）。虽然一些政策领域被认为是“挺身而出”的象征，其他人则被降级到过于强硬的盘中，暂停在持久的停滞状态。本文将“政治时代”与“酷儿时代”对立起来，总结了这些“新时代”中交叉（不）平等所带来的政策挑战。