This article is about one of the most violent and visible form anti-LGBTQI activism in Sweden, conducted by Neo-Nazis. Through a critical discourse analysis of 189 texts published in Swedish newspapers and Neo-Nazi alternative media, it argues that contemporary Swedish Neo-Nazi anti-LGBTQI activism draws upon and constructs transnational heteroactivist discourses. They claim to “protect the nuclear family” to deflate accusations of homophobia while gaining substantial visibility through news media covering their actions. The findings demonstrate the three ways Neo-Nazi texts use heteroactivist strategies. First, the texts argue that LGBTQI rights and feminism are societally harmful. Second, through intertextuality they refer to both local and international alternative media as the basis for their arguments. Third, they rationalise homophobic hatred. This paper contributes to discussions of heteroactivism, revealing the need to grapple with the ways it is intertwined with race and nationalism. Empirically, the analysis also highlights the significance of anti-LGBTQI activism in contemporary white power and extreme-right movements. The inclusion of news media texts that frame and represent heteroactivist strategies reveals that, despite their rationalising efforts, Neo-Nazi anti-LGBTQI activism is represented as homophobic and hateful in news and debate articles describing them. Additionally, news media representations of Neo-Nazi heteroactivist discourse present a nationalist contradiction, with authors re-constructing narratives of Sweden as a “LGBT friendly nation”, bringing to light complex relations between heteroactivism, homophobia, racism, and nationalism.

Julia Lagerman

ACME

ACME is an on-line international journal for critical and radical analyses of the social, the spatial and the political. The journal"s purpose is to provide a forum for the publication of critical and radical work about space in the social sciences - including anarchist, anti-racist, environmentalist, feminist, Marxist, non-representational, postcolonial, poststructuralist, queer, situationist and socialist perspectives. Analyses that are critical and radical are understood to be part of the praxis of social and political change aimed at challenging, dismantling, and transforming prevalent relations, systems, and structures of capitalist exploitation, oppression, imperialism, neo-liberalism, national aggression, and environmental destruction.

ACME is an online international journal dedicated to critical and radical analyses of social, spatial, and political issues. The journal aims to provide a platform for publishing critical and radical work about space in the social sciences, including perspectives from anarchism, anti-racism, environmentalism, feminism, Marxism, non-representational theory, postcolonialism, poststructuralism, queer theory, situationism, and socialism. Analyses that are critical and radical are understood as part of the praxis of social and political change, aimed at challenging, dismantling, and transforming the prevalent relations, systems, and structures of capitalist exploitation, oppression, imperialism, neoliberalism, national aggression, and environmental destruction.

《ACME》是一本在线国际期刊，专注于对社会、空间和政治的批判性和激进性分析。期刊的目的是为社会科学领域内关于空间的批判性和激进性研究提供一个发表的平台，涵盖无政府主义、反种族主义、环境主义、女性主义、马克思主义、非表现主义、后殖民主义、后结构主义、酷儿、情境主义和社会主义等多种视角。我们理解批判性和激进性的分析是社会和政治变革实践的一部分，旨在挑战、拆解和转变资本主义剥削、压迫、帝国主义、新自由主义、民族侵略和环境破坏等普遍关系、系统和结构。

Neo-Nazi Heteroactivism and the Swedish Nationalist Contradiction

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