Research on the Responsibility to Protect has become increasingly intersectional with over two decades of research; however, there remains a blind spot on the persecution of queer people. This is surprising given that queer people have been persecuted in atrocity crimes as far back as the Holocaust. While the field of genocide studies has recently begun to engage with this area, we frame queer persecution more broadly around the four R2P crimes. In this article we set out the rationale and urgency for including a queer lens in the prevention of atrocity crimes. This is not only about a focus on queer people; we argue for a queer politics and ethics that ceaselessly interrogates all relations of power. We outline the scale of the gap in academic research, policy and state understandings of R2P. Since R2P is often framed as a foreign policy matter by western states, with the global South as the object of R2P, we include two case-studies on escalating persecution against LGBTI+ people in Europe: the United Kingdom and Hungary. We argue that the R2P research and policy communities should remove what we call the ‘cishetronormative blindfold’ and engage more broadly with intersectional approaches to atrocity prevention.

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质疑保护责任

保护责任的研究与二十多年来的研究越来越交叉；然而，对酷儿群体的迫害仍然存在盲点。这是令人惊讶的，因为早在大屠杀期间酷儿就遭受过暴行迫害。虽然种族灭绝研究领域最近开始涉足这一领域，但我们更广泛地围绕四种 R2P 犯罪来界定酷儿迫害。在本文中，我们阐述了将酷儿视角纳入预防暴行罪的理由和紧迫性。这不仅是对酷儿群体的关注，也是对酷儿人群的关注。我们主张一种不断质疑所有权力关系的酷儿政治和道德观。我们概述了学术研究、政策和国家对保护责任的理解方面的差距规模。由于R2P经常被西方国家视为外交政策问题，而全球南方国家则是R2P的对象，因此我们纳入了两个关于欧洲针对LGBTI+人群不断升级的迫害的案例研究：英国和匈牙利。我们认为，R2P 研究和政策界应该消除我们所说的“cishetronormative 蒙蔽”，并更广泛地参与预防暴行的交叉方法。