Phillip M. Ayoub

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Europe’s soccer championships are underway and LGBTI politics in sport and in Europe are front and center. (In Europe, intersex people are often included in the acronym.) In last week’s nail-biter match between Germany and Hungary, the game itself was overshadowed by an intense debate on LGBTI rights in Germany, Hungary and Europe.

Last week, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) investigated German national team captain Manuel Neuer for wearing a rainbow-colored armband, which it had claimed was “too political”. The organization approved the armband eventually. But before the Germany-Hungary match, host city Munich planned to illuminate its Allianz Arena in rainbow-colored lights to protest a Hungarian law.…  Seguir leyendo »

Protesters in protective masks demonstrate against discrimination of the LGBT community two days before the presidential elections runoff at the UNESCO listed Main Square on July 10 in Krakow, Poland. (Omar Marques/Getty Images)

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Poland narrowly reelected right-wing incumbent Andrzej Duda on July 13. In a presidential election with unusually high stakes, the margin was extremely slight: Duda brought in just over 51 percent of the vote. Poland has a mixed presidential and parliamentary system, giving it both a president and a prime minister, and the president holds important veto powers. Over the last five years, Duda has been criticized within and outside Poland for his loyalty to the Law and Justice (PiS) party-led parliament, signing into law bills many see as breaching the Polish constitution and European liberal democratic norms. For example, as political scientists Laurent Pech and R.…  Seguir leyendo »

he Brandenburg Gate is seen with a rainbow flag projected onto it during a vigil for victims of a shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando nearly a week earlier, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin on June 18, 2016. (Adam Berry/Getty Images)

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After years of defending her party’s opposition to same-sex marriage, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stunned many by announcing this week that members of her center-right, governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party would no longer be asked to toe the party line. Instead, she would let parliamentarians vote “according to conscience”.

In the current Bundestag, a conscience vote — without wrangling by the party whip — is widely believed to be an almost certain win for equal marriage. Parliamentarians, including those of the CDU, responded speedily, calling for a vote as early as this Friday.

Why now? Domestic and international politics explain this development.…  Seguir leyendo »