Join Queer@King’s for a lively panel discussion about Daniel Conway's new book, Queer Politics of Pride: Global LGBTQ+ Activism and Homocapitalism (Bloomsbury, 2025). This is the first book to situate the queer politics of LGBTQ+ Pride in global terms, exploring the impacts, controversies and potential of Pride across the world.

By interrogating the politics of Pride, Conway addresses broader questions about the contemporary LGBTQ+ advocacy movement, including the influence of corporate sponsorship and advocacy; the movement’s relationship with state and international institutions; and the rise of an LGBTQ+ global elite.

This event will feature comments from Conway, and responses from Billy Holzberg, Jonathan Ward and Dan Glass. The event will be chaired by Zeena Feldman, and conclude with a drinks reception.

About the speakers

Daniel Conway is Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster, UK and a Research Associate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has published extensively on LGBTQ+ activism and South African politics and society. He is the author of Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa (with Pauline Leonard, 2014) and Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa, (2012). Conway is a previous chair of the Feminist Theory and Gender Section of the International Studies Association.

Zeena Feldman is Reader in Digital Culture, in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. She is Director of Queer@King’s and Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Culture. Her research examines how digital technologies impact understandings and performances of traditionally analogue concepts – for instance, belonging, wellbeing and work. She has published widely.

Dan Glass is an AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) healthcare and human rights activist, performer, presenter and writer. Dan is currently a PhD Candidate at KCL and is the author of United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow Dan Glass and Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History.

Billy Holzberg is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Social Justice. His research, teaching and public engagement draw on transnational, liberatory, and collaborative queer feminist approaches. His first monograph Affective Bordering: The Emotional Politics of Race, Migration, and Deservingness (Manchester University Press) explores the interplay between affect and migration control, revealing how emotions work to reinforce racial and national hierarchies.

Jonathan Ward is Lecturer in Race and Diversity Studies. Jonathan is currently working on a monograph entitled “What-Is-It?” Containing the Threat of the Black Male Body in American Visual Culture, which examines the racist narratives attached to Black men's bodies, and the function of these narratives in maintaining white supremacy.

About Queer@King's

The Queer@King’s Research Centre was founded at King’s College London in 2003. Our work focuses on advancing interdisciplinary knowledge about minoritised sexualities and genders. We are committed to LGBTQIA+ community engagement. That’s why all our events – from panel discussions, workshops and conferences to artist talks, reading groups and beyond – are free to attend. Please consider making a donation to help sustain this vital work: https://www.justgiving.com/page/queeratkings.