Peter Drucker (former programme director of the IIRE, editor of the anthology Different Rainbows on LGBT sexualities and struggles in the underdeveloped world)

Beginning in the early 1990s in the US, a 'queer' activist current has gradually spread to other countries, including in recent years in Western Europe. In decades when the prevailing trend in LGBT movements has been to orient to legal reforms by parliamentary means, queer activism has constituted a third wave of sexual radicalism, emphasizing the fluidity and diversity of human sexual desire, visibility, difference, refusal to assimilate to the dominant culture, and direct action. What are the social origins of queer? Does this current have a vision (implicit or explicit) of sexual liberation, and if so, what is it? What is its relationship to such emancipatory projects as feminism, antiracism, global justice and socialism?

Sunday, 13th April, 7.30 p.m. (in English)

IIRE, Lombokstraat 40, Amsterdam (tram 14 to Zeeburgerdijk, bus 22 to Javaplein or train to Amsterdam Muiderpoort)