Post-Homonationalism in the Netherlands

Between 2012 and 2017 Amsterdam Pride hosted a Turkish Boat and three editions of a Moroccan boat, organized by Dutch citizens of migrant background. The media portrayed these events as a positive achievement for the migrant communities, considering their ‘ethnic background.’ Meanwhile, public opinion on muslims and immigrants from Turkey and Morocco as intolerant towards LGBTI people became one of the key elements of the general election campaign in 2017.The scholarship on homonationalism has been mainly dealing with questions of islamophobia and racism within the right wing populist discourse. This presentation will engage with the limitations of this analysis by mapping out Dutch homonationalism as adopted by the Dutch liberal, centrist, and left political spectrum - I refer to this phenomenon as post-homonationalism. This paper will also be focussing on how this specific context produces narratives of queer Muslims as the perfect subjects to justify and reinforce homonationalism, Islamophobia and racism within the Dutch public sphere.