par Biesemans, Romain 
;Kins, Lucas
Organisme financeur ULB (FER, ARC)
Publication Publié, 2026-05-11
;Kins, Lucas Organisme financeur ULB (FER, ARC)
Publication Publié, 2026-05-11
Rapport
| Résumé : | In recent years, gender equality and LGBTQIA+ issues have gained increasing visibility across Europe, often becoming sources of political tension and conflict across the political spectrum in several countries (Abou-Chadi et al., 2021; Kantola & Lombardo, 2021; Turnbull-Dugarte et al., 2024). In particular, issues relating to education and gender identity regularly generate political debate and contestation between parties. Although left-wing parties have traditionally been the most visible political actors on issues of gender equality (Kittilson, 2006; Keith & Verge, 2018; Weeks et al., 2025), the relationship between political parties and these issues is often more complex than ideology alone would suggest. At the same time, support for gender and LGBTQIA+ issues can no longer be seen as the exclusive domain of the left. Over the past three decades, conservative and Christian-democratic parties’ positions on these matters have also evolved (Abou-Chadi & Finnigan, 2019; Engeli et al., 2012). Yet, despite growing scholarly interest in these developments, we still know relatively little about the extent to which—and the ways in which—different parties communicate on these issues through social media. Hence, this note seeks to determine how prevalent LGBTQIA+ issues are in the social media communication of political parties in Belgium. First, we quantitatively assess the prevalence of LGBTQIA+ issues overtime, and across the political spectrum via a dictionary-based approach. Second, we qualitatively analyse the identified posts using a frame-inspired thematic coding scheme. |
