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Queers in State Socialism - Cruising 1970s Poland (Hardcover)
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Queers in State Socialism - Cruising 1970s Poland (Hardcover)
Series: LGBTQ Histories
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This short collection of essays engages with queer lives and
activism in 1970s Poland, illustrating discourses about queerness
and a trajectory of the struggle for rights which clearly sets
itself apart, and differs from a Western-based narrative of
liberation. Contributors to this volume paint an uneven landscape
of queer life in state-socialist Poland in the 1970s and early
1980s. They turn to oral history interviews and archival sources
which include police files, personal letters, literature and
criticism, writings by sexuality experts, and documentation of
artistic practice. Unlike most of Europe, Poland did not penalize
same-sex acts, although queer people were commonly treated with
suspicion and vilified. But while many homosexual men and most
lesbian women felt invisible and alone, some had the sense of
belonging to a fledgling community. As they looked to the West,
hoping for a sexual revolution that never quite arrived, they also
preserved informal queer institutions dating back to the prewar
years and used them to their advantage. Medical experts conversed
with peers across the Iron Curtain but developed their own
"socialist" methods and successfully prompted the state to
recognize transgender rights, even as that state remained
determined to watch and intimidate homosexual men. Literary
critics, translators, and art historians began debating-and they
debate still-how to read gestures defying gender and sexual norms:
as an aspect of some global "gay" formation or as stemming from
locally grounded queer traditions. Emphasizing the differences of
Poland's LGBT history from that of the "global" West while
underscoring the existing lines of communication between queer
subjects on either side of the Iron Curtain, this book will be of
key interest to scholars and students in gender and sexuality
studies, social history, and politics.
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