Do Homosexuals Wear Moustaches? Controversies around the First Montenegrin Pride Parade
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2016
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Owing to their multivocal and dynamic character, symbols carry multiple and sometimes contradictory meanings. Power struggles often crystallise around a single ‘thing’ which comes to carry heavy and contested symbolic weight. In that way, the struggle over masculinity, sexuality, heritage and belonging provoked by the first Pride parade in Montenegro’s capital crystallised
around the moustache. Notably, after applying for EU membership (in 2008) and acquiring candidate status (in 2010), Montenegro opened accession negotiations with the European Union in 2012. As the EU has recognised Pride marches as an important marker of democratisation and human rights promotion, in order to show its commitment to human rights, Montenegro organised its first Pride march in 2013. Although Montenegro has witnessed a shift in acceptance of sexual minorities therein recent years, controversies over the moustache as the symbol of the first Montenegrin Pride parade clearly show that rapid change in natio...nal gender policies is accompanied by many overheating effects, as well as that different parts of Montenegrin society are moving toward the EU at different speeds. The attempt of the Montenegrin LGBTIQ community to transfer the semantic area traditionally covering the moustache (honour, pride, morality, heroism, bravery and so on) to the context of contemporary struggles for sexual minority rights, resulted in an interesting and a ‘typically Montenegrin’ culture war. By ‘claiming their right’ to the moustache, and by breaking prejudices about who is entitled to wear it, the Montenegrin LGBTIQ community also ‘claimed their right’ to Montenegrin history and tradition, pointing out that sexual minorities must be full and equal members of Montenegrin culture. By contrast, people with opposing views consider the LGBTIQ community’s appropriation of the moustache an attack on Montenegrin identity, tradition, history and national pride, and find this ‘usurpation’ aggressive and humiliating.
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Moustache / Montenegro / Symbol / Pride parade / LGBTIQ / Sexual minority rights / Honour / Pride / Heroism / EUИзвор:
Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World, 2016, 184-204Издавач:
- London : Pluto Press
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Етнографски институт САНУ / Institute of Ethnography SASATY - CHAP AU - Banović, Branko PY - 2016 UR - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/13824 AB - Owing to their multivocal and dynamic character, symbols carry multiple and sometimes contradictory meanings. Power struggles often crystallise around a single ‘thing’ which comes to carry heavy and contested symbolic weight. In that way, the struggle over masculinity, sexuality, heritage and belonging provoked by the first Pride parade in Montenegro’s capital crystallised around the moustache. Notably, after applying for EU membership (in 2008) and acquiring candidate status (in 2010), Montenegro opened accession negotiations with the European Union in 2012. As the EU has recognised Pride marches as an important marker of democratisation and human rights promotion, in order to show its commitment to human rights, Montenegro organised its first Pride march in 2013. Although Montenegro has witnessed a shift in acceptance of sexual minorities therein recent years, controversies over the moustache as the symbol of the first Montenegrin Pride parade clearly show that rapid change in national gender policies is accompanied by many overheating effects, as well as that different parts of Montenegrin society are moving toward the EU at different speeds. The attempt of the Montenegrin LGBTIQ community to transfer the semantic area traditionally covering the moustache (honour, pride, morality, heroism, bravery and so on) to the context of contemporary struggles for sexual minority rights, resulted in an interesting and a ‘typically Montenegrin’ culture war. By ‘claiming their right’ to the moustache, and by breaking prejudices about who is entitled to wear it, the Montenegrin LGBTIQ community also ‘claimed their right’ to Montenegrin history and tradition, pointing out that sexual minorities must be full and equal members of Montenegrin culture. By contrast, people with opposing views consider the LGBTIQ community’s appropriation of the moustache an attack on Montenegrin identity, tradition, history and national pride, and find this ‘usurpation’ aggressive and humiliating. PB - London : Pluto Press T2 - Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World T1 - Do Homosexuals Wear Moustaches? Controversies around the First Montenegrin Pride Parade SP - 184 EP - 204 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13824 ER -
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Banović, B.. (2016). Do Homosexuals Wear Moustaches? Controversies around the First Montenegrin Pride Parade. in Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World London : Pluto Press., 184-204. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13824
Banović B. Do Homosexuals Wear Moustaches? Controversies around the First Montenegrin Pride Parade. in Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World. 2016;:184-204. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13824 .
Banović, Branko, "Do Homosexuals Wear Moustaches? Controversies around the First Montenegrin Pride Parade" in Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World (2016):184-204, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13824 .