ABSTRACT

Drawing on first-hand fieldwork experiences, conversations and interviews, this paper describes and analyses the violent attack on a GALZ event in Zimbabwe in 2014. A gang of unidentifiable men stormed the event and assaulted those present. The paper explores this attack on the LGBTI community in Zimbabwe as a sign, drawing on Peirce’s theorizing of signs as triadic. We describe the emotions, acts and reflections the raid gave rise to, and the intense speculation about who stood behind the attack. The paper demonstrates how precarious sexual minority activism can be in a context of oppression and opposition, and how unsettling and disrupting hate violence can turn out to work.

摘要

本文利用第一手的实地考察经验、对话和采访，描述和分析了 2014 年津巴布韦 GALZ 事件的暴力袭击事件。一群身份不明的男子冲进事件并袭击了在场的人。这篇论文探讨了对津巴布韦 LGBTI 社区的这种攻击作为一个标志，借鉴了皮尔斯将标志作为三元的理论。我们描述了突袭引发的情绪、行为和反思，以及对袭击幕后黑手的激烈猜测。这篇论文展示了在压迫和反对的背景下，性少数群体的激进主义如何变得岌岌可危，以及令人不安和破坏仇恨暴力的效果如何。