This paper examines Croatian LGBTQ activists’ engagement with discourses of human rights and European identity in their struggles for anti-discrimination legislation. Utilizing the external pressure imposed by European Union institutions on the Croatian government and the government’s aim to become an EU member state during the pre-accession process, some activists and the organizations with which they collaborated focused their efforts and resources toward lobbying for legislative protection again discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Aside from the specific circumstances of EU accession, part of the thrust behind the focus on legislative change and lobbying derives from processes of professionalization or the changing financial and legal support structures that the organization began to use during this period, the international and transnational networks in which they took part, and their internal organizational structures. Some activists construct a hierarchical differentiation between a professionalized sphere consisting of serious, professionalized types of activism vs. so-called amateur, cultural-based activism and embrace similar lobbying strategies used by transnational LGBTQ organizations in Europe. These professionalized lobbying strategies have reproduced discourses of human rights and European identity that may foreclose recognition of difference within the larger, diverse LGBTQ community and its needs.

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2000 年代克罗地亚的性政治和激进主义专业化

本文考察了克罗地亚 LGBTQ 活动家在争取反歧视立法的斗争中对人权和欧洲身份话语的参与。利用欧盟机构对克罗地亚政府施加的外部压力以及克罗地亚政府在入盟前进程中成为欧盟成员国的目标，一些激进分子和与其合作的组织将精力和资源集中在再次游说立法保护上。基于性取向和性别认同的歧视。除了加入欧盟的具体情况外，关注立法变革和游说背后的部分推动力源于专业化过程或该组织在此期间开始使用的不断变化的财务和法律支持结构，他们参与的国际和跨国网络，以及他们的内部组织结构。一些激进主义者在由严肃的、专业化的激进主义类型与所谓的业余、基于文化的激进主义组成的专业化领域之间构建了等级差异，并采用了欧洲跨国 LGBTQ 组织使用的类似游说策略。这些专业化的游说策略复制了人权和欧洲身份的话语，可能会排除对更大、多样化的 LGBTQ 社区及其需求的差异的认识。专业化类型的激进主义与所谓的业余、基于文化的激进主义，并采用欧洲跨国 LGBTQ 组织使用的类似游说策略。这些专业化的游说策略复制了人权和欧洲身份的话语，可能会排除对更大、多样化的 LGBTQ 社区及其需求的差异的认识。专业化类型的激进主义与所谓的业余、基于文化的激进主义，并采用欧洲跨国 LGBTQ 组织使用的类似游说策略。这些专业化的游说策略复制了人权和欧洲身份的话语，可能会排除对更大、多样化的 LGBTQ 社区及其需求的差异的认识。