‘Better to be a Dictator than Gay’: Homophobic Discourses in Belarusian Politics

Matthew Frear

Europe-Asia Studies, 2021, vol. 73, issue 8, 1467-1486

Abstract: This essay analyses the political discourses employed by both the Belarusian authorities and the opposition with regard to homophobia and the LGBT community. It explores the anti-LGBT rhetoric and political homophobia that has been identified in the literature on Russian and Ukrainian politics as a baseline for examining neighbouring Belarus. It identifies which homophobic discourses are present in Belarus and how political homophobia is wielded by different actors on the domestic political scene.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2021.1970721

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