Abstract
Rights gains for members of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) populations in Chile have been highly contentious since democratisation, indicative of the stigmatisation directed towards non-normative gender and sexual identities. This article addresses the role of activist lawyers pursuing LGBTI rights cases through the courts, and draws on McAdam and colleagues’ (2001) concept of a ‘broker’ to examine the lawyers’ roles in linking previously unconnected sites within the judiciary and further a eld. The analysis draws these processes together through interactionist perspectives of meaning-making and how they relate to stigma, deviancy and identity.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 435-450 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Bulletin of Latin American Research |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 25 May 2015 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2015 |