The language of gender equality and sexual emancipation has become increasingly pivotal to Western immigration and integration governmentality, giving rise to a new brand of nationalism in which women's rights and gay-and-lesbian rights are deemed core civilisational values of the West, while migrant communities, particularly Muslims, are cast as menacing them. Operating through a reconfigured Orientalism and the rhetoric and politics of ‘clash of civilisations’, these collusions come with serious national and international consequences and should be analysed not only as a new inflection of contemporary racism, in an era boisterously declared committed to diversity though anti-multiculturalist and post-racial, but also in their connections with neo-liberalism that links biopolitics to geopolitics and made marketable a range of social movements such as feminism and gay and lesbian activism. Expanding on a critical framework inspired by postcolonial feminist and queer anti-racist writings, this paper uncove...