Thrilled to kick off the ERC Starting Grant project #VisibleQueers officially with a workshop in Mainz! Intense time of inspiring talks and sharp discussions on representation and behavior of LGBTQ+ individuals across Europe. Huge thanks to everyone who joined us! 🏳️‍🌈 #PoliSci

For my DFG-funded project “German Sexual Identity and Election Study” and my ERC-funded project “VisibleQueers”, I am looking for three student assistants (m/f/d) to provide dedicated support and active collaboration.

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This is precisely what I intend to change. VisibleQueers will be the first large-scale cross-national study to place LGBTQ* individuals at the centre of investigation. However, the findings will undoubtedly also be applicable to other social identities.

VisibleQueers examines three key aspects: (i) how LGBTQ* identities emerge within different institutional contexts, (ii) how these identities influence partisanship within East and West European party system configurations, and (iii) how political support differs along the LGBTQ*/non-LGBTQ* divide.

Sexual and gender minorities are once again facing increasing repression, and in some places it has never stopped. VisibleQueers takes this as its starting point, aiming for the first time on a large scale to capture their identities, attitudes, and political behaviours…

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”.
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❗📣 MZES Research Fellow @wurthmann.bsky.social has been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for his project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled

"Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe".

Congratulations! 🥳👏
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