Book Launch: "The Politics of Pride Events: Global and Local Challenges"

Presented by London Met's Gender and Sexual Diversities Research Group, Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre, LGBTQ+ Staff Network, and Centre for Equality and Inclusion.

Francesca Romana Ammaturo’s The Politics of Pride Events: Global and Local Challenges explores the challenges and opportunities existing in relation to the organisation of Pride Events across the globe. Based on interviews conducted with sixty Pride organisers from twenty-nine countries around the world, this book questions the origins, features, and purpose of Pride Events, in connection with discourses of Modernity, Progress, and Human Rights.

By mobilising concepts from Decolonial Theories and Queer Theory, the book investigates the “Kaleidoscope Modernities” of Pride Events, as multifaceted, multidimensional phenomena that sit between the dimensions of the global and the local. The book offers a fresh and bold perspective on Pride Events by addressing issues such as the commodification of Pride Events, the fractures within LGBTQIA+ movements, as well as the rise of demands connected to disability justice and environmental sustainability within LGBTQIA+ movements.

Join us and a fantastic line-up of speakers to celebrate the publication of this book and explore the richness of the histories and experiences of Pride Events around the world.

Angeliki Sifaki, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies

Sarah Savage, Trans Rights Campaigner and Co-Founder of Trans Pride Brighton

Koen Slootmaeckers, Reader in International Politics, City St. George’s, University of London

Chair: Phillip Ayoub, Professor of Political Science, UCL

Francesca Romana Ammaturo is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and International Relations at London Metropolitan University. Her research explores LGBTQIA+ rights and Social Movements in Europe and in a global context, with a particular focus on Pride Events. She is also interested in rural and peripheral queer studies in relations to Southern Italy, theories of Southern Italian subalternity, and provincializing gender and sexuality studies in Europe. In 2017, she has authored for Palgrave a monograph titled “European Sexual Citizenship: Human Rights, Bodies, and Identities”. Francesca has widely published in the field of LGBTQIA+ rights and social movements in peer-reviewed articles, and in 2025 she has received with co-author Koen Slootmaeckers, the prize for Best Article of the year from the Council for European Studies, for the article “The Unexpected Politics of ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Maps: (De)constructing Queer Utopias/Dystopias”, published by The European Journal of Politics and Gender.

This event will take place on our Holloway campus in the Rainbow Room (BPLG-03) and will be followed by a Q&A and drinks reception.

The Gender and Sexual Diversity Research Group is an interdisciplinary and collaborative research hub which applies an intersectional, holistic and inclusive approach to researching and theorising gender and sexual diversity, identities, experiences, expression and inequities.

The Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre is a home for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scholarship that explores migration, diasporas, nations, regions and localities through the lenses of diversity and inequality.

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