2018/09/03 by Christine M. Klapeer, Pia Laskar · 1 voice · 1 citation
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Diaspora, migration, transnational identity #LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy #Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
paper · doi:10.1080/1070289x.2018.1507958
openalex publication_date 2018/09/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
This article discusses the trajectories of the rainbow flag through the concept of transnationalism and sets up a theoretical exchange between transnational migration research, critical sexuality studies, and queer scholarship. By engaging with the analytical differentiation between transnational ‘ways of being’ and ‘ways of belonging’ this article reads these concepts through a queer lens, while also challenging some of their underlying assumptions. We are asking if, and in that case how, the rainbow flag can be regarded as a visible manifestation of transnational ways of queer being, and as a floating signifier filled with different meanings through quotidian acts and diverse and unequal queer ways of being – interlinked as it is with global hegemonies and colonial genealogies besides signifying local specificities – but nevertheless somehow indicating transnational ways of queer belonging to an imagined queer community.