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46 Austl. Feminist L.J. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/afemlj46 and id is 1 raw text is: Australian Feminist Law Journal, 2020 Routledge Vol. 46, No. 1, 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2020.1821459 Taylor&Francs Group FROM CONDITIONALITY TO CONVERGENCE: TRACING THE DISCURSIVE SHIFT IN HOMO-DEVELOPMENTALISM Daryl W J Yang * Abstract. This article furthers the scholarship on homo-developmentalism by analysing a recent discursive shift in the homo-developmentalist discourse from conditionality to a new narrative of convergence. Appearing in several recent research reports published by various development agencies, this narrative describes the relationship between LGBT rights and economic development as one that is mutually constitutive. This article interrogates how the narrative of convergence was constructed by attending to the indicators utilised in the various research reports and considers the implications of this discursive shift in terms of how it sustains the development project and Western civilisational exceptionalism through the construction of a new binary of LGBT-inclusive/ LGBT-phobic. It concludes with a brief discussion on negotiating the complex entanglements of Western imperialism in pursuing the advancement of human flourishing. 1.0 INTRODUCTION In December 2011, United States (US) President Barack Obama released a presiden- tial memorandum titled 'International Initiatives to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Persons' that directed US develop- ment agencies to 'ensure that ... foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons'.' Obama's order followed the United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister David Cameron's threat in October 2011 to withdraw foreign aid from countries that criminalise same-sex sexual intimacy at the Commonwealth *darylyang@aya.yale.edu. LL.B (First Class Honours) (National University of Singapore); BA (Honours) (Yale-NUS College). The author is grateful to Sundhya Pahuja, Laura Griffin and the anonymous reviewers for their feedback and guidance. 1 Barack Obama, 'Presidential Memorandum - International Initiatives to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons: Memorandum for the Heads of Execu- tive Departments and Agencies' (Office of the Press Secretary for the White House, 6 December 2011) <https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/06/presidential-memorandum- international-initiatives-advance-human-rights-> (last accessed 1 July 2020). C 2020 Australian Feminist Law Journal Inc.

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