ABSTRACT
In 2010 Judith Butler declined the Civil Courage Award (Zivil Preis) assigned by the organizers of the 2010 Christopher Street Day parade in Berlin, denouncing the commodified character of the initiative and the connivance of the organizers with homonationalist, racist and islamophobic instances (Petzen, 2012). This event appeared to strength the criticisms about the incorporation of LGBT politics – including Pride parades – under the neoliberal agenda celebrating the market values of ‘freedom’, ‘privacy’ and ‘personal responsibility’ (Chasin, 2000; Vaid, 1995). In theoretical terms, Lisa Duggan (2002) has conceptualized these trends as ‘new homonormativity’ or ‘the sexual politics of neoliberalism’, associated by other scholars to the exclusion of racial Others under a homonationalist agenda of citizenship (see Nast, 2002; Puar, 2006).
