| dc.description.abstract | During the past thirty years, the United Nations (UN), which had a human rights mechanism since 1945, has become a key battlefield for global lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists. A number of LGBT non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are active in the United Nations, using human rights as framework to fight against state-sponsored homophobia and call for legal or policy reform in the target states to promote global LGBT rights. Instead of simply celebrating or rejecting this new trend from a macro-perspective, I focus on displaying the specific operation methods of LGBT NGOs by exploring International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association’s (ILGA) engagement at the UN. I also examine non-western LGBT NGOs’ involvement by analyzing cases of non-western NGOs’ participation in the UN. Although the frameworks and strategies of local LGBT NGOs in the United Nations are highly affected by the prevailing operation method for their independence on international funds, expertise and networking, the nonconforming aspects emerging from their participation in the UN imply a potential alternative approach to liberate local sexual minorities, which may bring dynamic into the pedantic and repetitive reproduction of frames, identities and values in international human rights mechanism. | en_US |