The LGBTIQ+POL project is part of the PRIN PNRR 2022 program, involving the University of Verona, the University of Pavia and the University of Trieste.
Title: The institutionalization of LGBTIQ+ equality in EU countries between advancements and oppositions: policies, actors, arenas
Project Code P2022ZYZ4S_001, CUP B53D23032850001.
Funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, M4C2, 1.1
2023-2025
In 2020, the European Commission adopted an LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025 “addressing the inequalities and challenges affecting LGBTIQ people, in order to move towards a Union of Equality”. The EU strategy is one of the results of the “Europeanization” of and through LGBTIQ+ rights, enhanced by the Recommendation 2010/5 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity. Since 2010, LGBTIQ+ equality policies have been entering the institutional agendas in all the EU countries, gaining visibility and triggering protests in the public sphere and within institutions. Nevertheless, the variation in the trajectories of LGBTIQ+ policies in the EU27 and the reasons behind this situation have received little attention in the emerging literature on LGBTIQ+ equality policies.
To fill this gap, LGBTIQ+POL proposes a set of mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to cover the multidimensionality of factors explaining the variation in the LGBTIQ+ policies’ adoption at EU member state level.
The LGBTIQ+POL project’s major aim is to perform a longitudinal cross-national analysis on EU27 member states (from 2010 onwards) through both existing and newly built original datasets, on the one hand, and theory-generating case studies, on the other. Ultimately, it will assess the determinants of LGBTIQ+ Equality in EU27.
Special attention will be paid to Italy as a specific case study presenting a critical configuration regarding the intensification of LGBTIQ+ policy agendas, the emergence of strongly politicized anti-LGBTIQ+ movements, and a sharpening of conflicts within the institutional arena.
THE PROJECT IS STRUCTURED AROUND CONCRETE AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND AIMS AT:
- Defining the context of LGBTIQ+ policies and identifying the legal, social and political dimensions of LGBTIQ+ equality among the EU27 member states;
- Mapping and analyzing the quantitative and qualitative aspects of anti-LGBTIQ+ protests in the EU27 through a protest events analysis;
- Scrutinizing the institutionalization of LGBTIQ+ policies in a selected number of European countries, through the analysis of the policymaking process in the parliamentary arena, in which political actors, with different roles and preferences, are involved.
Research Team: Massimo Prearo (PI), Lorenzo Bernini and Federico Trastulli.