Past research has found individuals’ willingness to engage with political activism to be linked with a variety of factors. These include personal experiences with discrimination or disenfranchisement, access to social and financial resources, and personality traits. The present study focuses on perspectives on activism and activist identity within queer/LGBTQI* individuals and examines the ways in which political engagement is approached within this population. Queer individuals are all directly or indirectly confronted with politicisation and discrimination, but may show highly varied experiences of identity, social positioning, access to resources, and political opinion.

We investigate the role of the above factors within a sample of 100 LGBTQI* individuals through a mixed questionnaire and narrative qualitative interviews.

As part of this study design and to represent this complex tension field, this project employs a custom sentence completion method derived from K. Kullasepps DDTC (Kullasepp, 2008) method to explore individuals inner conflicts, role negotiations and overall meaning construction surrounding activism and queer community. Through this qualitative methodology, new theoretical avenues are opened. They may not only be built on to better understand activism and political engagement within complex social and identity networks, but also may provide a base to offer tailored practical support agency and access to political work for members of politicised communities.

Kullasepp, K. (2008). Dialogical becoming. Professional identity formation of

psychology students. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Tallinn University, Estonia.