Kristina Stoeckl is professor of sociology at Luiss Rome. She is the coauthor (with Dmitry Uzlaner) of The Moralist International: Russia in the Global Culture Wars (2022). She is coauthor (with Phillip Ayoub) of The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights: How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities (forthcoming).
Autocrats have found a new way to turn citizens against liberal democracy: convincing them that LGBTIQ rights, granted and protected in much of the West, pose a threat to their nation and its values.
