Abstract
In transferring the terms of the debate into the field of citizenship, this chapter seeks to demonstrate that opening up the current predominant model of national citizenship to dynamics of a layering of allegiances, modes of belonging and forms of identification permits a radical challenge in the current framework of European protection of human rights for LGBTQI persons, but also to the concept of human rights more broadly. In proposing a model of “multisexual and multigendered citizenship ”, this chapter depicts a citizen able to simultaneously mobilise multiple sexual, gendered, ethnic, religious, political and cultural allegiances in order to make human rights claims as an active agent, rather than a passive recipient of protection on the part of a national or supranational politico-legal authority.
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Ammaturo, F.R. (2017). Multisexual and Multigender Citizenship: Towards a New Framework of Human Rights Protection in Europe . In: European Sexual Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41974-9_6
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