Gosine, Andil

Sex for pleasure, rights to participation, and alternatives to AIDS: placing sexual minorities and/or dissidents in development

This paper highlights some of the contradictions in the relationship between rights and participation in the evolution of discourses on sexualities in development in various countries throughout the Third World. It does so by examining the ways in which the participation of sexual minorities and/or dissidents comes to be framed by the development industry, and focuses in particular on the ready placement of sexual minority rights and well-being struggles within an HIV/AIDS framework.