David Paternotte
Coordinator of STRIGES
David Paternotte is Associate Professor in Sociology at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where is the codirector of STRIGES. He also chairs the board of the interdisciplinary master in gender studies that unites the 6 Belgian French-speaking universities. After research on same-sex marriage advocacy and LGBT activism, he studies anti-gender campaigns and attacks on academic freedom in Europe. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he has authored the book Revendiquer le “mariage gay”: Belgique, France, Espagne (Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2011). He has also edited numerous collected volumes, including The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State (Ashgate 2011, with Manon Tremblay and Carol Johnson), LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe: A Rainbow Europe? (Palgrave, 2014, with Phillip Ayoub), the Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism (Ashgate, 2015, with Manon Tremblay) and Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017, with Roman Kuhar). He is the co-director of the book series “Global Queer Politics” (Palgrave) and Genre(s) & Sexualité(s) (Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles).
