Feminist and LGBTQIA rights activists have spent decades analysing conflict[…]. There has been some success stemming from these efforts. However, there is confusion around how women’s and LGBTQIA rights intersect in conflict, if gender, peace, and security efforts should engage with LGBTQIA rights, and how to do so. Actors take an array of approaches, including contradictory ones, those that
conflate gender with a male/female binary, and those that exclude women. There is disquiet over co-optation, instrumentalisation, dilution of movements, and concentration on cis gay men’s realities.