Cross border flows in gay and lesbian magazines

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. In Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland: Cross-Border Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines, Lukasz Szulc examines the emergence of Polish gay and lesbian magazines in the s, challenging the perception of LGBT activism as a post discourse in Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing upon a diverse and rich array of resources, this is a fascinating and convincing. This chapter examines cross-border flows of homosexual identity paradigms in gay and lesbian magazines published in communist Poland, Biuletyn/Etap and Filo.

: Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland: Cross-Border Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines (Global Queer Politics): Szulc, Lukasz: BooksThis 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. Beyond Borders: Sexuality and Cold War: On Łukasz Szulc’s book ‘Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland: Cross-Borders Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines’.

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Cruising s Poland, The work demonstrates that Polish homosexual activists were not locked behind the Iron Curtain, but actively participated in the transnational construction of homosexuality. All rights reserved. What is often described as the democratization and the Europeanization of the Polish state appear as very complex and conflictive processes. Palgrave Macmillan.

The focus is on undercurrents and internal dynamics, constantly negotiating and re-working mutual dependencies between the two discourses. This chapter examines the relationship of the Polish LG movement and the Polish state in a context of profound political transformations. Related papers. On the contrary, collective action undertaken by Polish lesbians and gays was slow to emerge and to reach the public sphere after Quo vadis, queer theory, is the question one encounters frequently these days.

Research from authors who have activist, governmental and interna- tional experience, as well as work that can contribute to the global debate over LGBTIQ rights with perspectives from the Global South.

The critical perspective offered in their volume comes from the context of postcommunist countries of Central and Eastern Europe CEE. In the mids, the Polish lesbian and gay LG movement became the epicenter of a large wave of solidarity initiatives, mostly from Western European organizations. Conceptualising the Polish gay communities as counterpublics in their national context, Szulc emphasises the crucial role of cross-border flows of information, which brought about the potentiality of representation for gay men and women, available in media in the West but decidedly scarce in the Soviet Bloc.

Their magazines were largely influenced by Western magazines: used similar words, discussed similar topics or simply translated Western texts and reproduced Western images. Polish Sociological Review, 2 , , Methodologies which may include comparative works and case studies with relevant transnational dimensions, and analyses of global processes. Politics of queer life writing in contemporary Poland Lucyna Marzec.

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Related papers. Moreover, the article presents significant original research, making effective use of archived online discussions as an unadulterated historical record, thus adding both to our stock of knowledge and to our level of understanding. Some bits and pieces of this project—along with my early thoughts on the topic of this book— have been published on the popular-science blog Notches: Re marks on the History of Sexuality, benefiting from the expertise of its editors, in par- ticular Justin Bengry and Katya Motyl.

Global, regional, transnational, comparative and national studies are welcome, but that speak to international processes. 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.

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. This, however, risks reading as somewhat essentialising.