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Bibliographic Data

ID23202072
AuthorsLukasz Szulc (0000-0003-3936-2933, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages211-230
Publication date2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueTransnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherSpringer International Publishing (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-58901-5_8
OpenAlexW2899179602
ISBN9783319589015
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited40

This book traces the fascinating history of the first Polish gay and lesbian magazines to explore the globalization of LGBT identities and politics in Central and Eastern Europe during the twilight years of the Cold War. It details the emergence of homosexual movement and charts cross-border flows of cultural products, identity paradigms and activism models in communist Poland. The work demonstrates that Polish homosexual activists were not locked behind the Iron Curtain, but actively participated in the transnational construction of homosexuality. Their magazines were largely influenced by Western magazines: used similar words, discussed similar topics or simply translated Western texts and reproduced Western images. However, the imported ideas were not just copied but selectively adopted as well as strategically and creatively adapted in the Polish magazines so their authors could construct their own unique identities and build their own original politics.

Aesthetics · Art · Cold war · Communism · Construct (python library) · Globalization · Homosexuality · Identity (music) · Iron Curtain · Lesbian · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies