„Moja córkowa jest bardzo fajowa”. Aktywistyczne praktyki normalizacyjne rodziców osób LGBTQ
“My Daughter-in-Law* Is Very Cool”: Activist Normalizing Practices of Parents of LGBTQ Persons

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the results of a study on one of the two currently existing parental organizations in Poland, operating in favor of gender-and-sexually non-normative persons: “We, the Parents – an association of mothers, fathers and allies of LGBTQIA people”. Its activity is presented against the background of phenomena identified as parental activism. The research is conducted in qualitative methodology; the leading research method is case study with an ethnographic profile, within which participant observation, individual interviews, media content analysis, an analysis of selected formal documents, and autoethnography were conducted. The text discusses an aspect of the collective identity of organization members, which is “normalizing parenthood”, while “normalization” is viewed through the prism of Erving Goffman’s social stigma category. Parents–activists engage in various practices to neutralize (‘blur’, ‘dissolve’, ‘weaken’) the stigma of their children’s non-normative sexual and gender identities, using existing parenting and family patterns.

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