Beyond the Pink Curtain

Everyday Life of LGBT People in Eastern Europe
EDITED BY ROMAN KUHAR AND JUDIT TAKÁCS
is published by

Mirovni Institut – Peace Institute www.mirovni-institut.si

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isbn: 961-6455-45-9 9616455459

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Roman Kuhar, Judit Takács, eds.
BEYOND THE PINK CURTAIN: Everyday life of LGBT people in Eastern Europe

Content

Foreword by Gert Hekma

Introduction by J. Takács and R. Kuhar

I. OUT WE COME

1. Liselotte van Velzen – Down and Out in Belgrade: An Ethnographic Account on the Everyday Life Experiences of Serbian Gays and Lesbians

2. Roman Kuhar – The Family Secret: Parents of Homosexual Sons and Daughters

3. Jolanta Reingardiene and Arnas Zdanevicius – Disrupting the (Hetero)normative: Coming-out in the Workplace in Lithuania

II. MAPPING THE SCENES

4. Katerina Nedbálková – The Changing Space of the Gay and Lesbian Community in the Czech Republic

5. Rita Béres Deák – Values Reflected in Style in a Lesbian Community in Budapest

6. Anna Gruszczynska – Living la vida Internet: Some notes on the cyberization of Polish LGBT community

7. Frédéric Jörgens – “East” Berlin: Lesbian and Gay Narratives on Everyday Life, Social Acceptance, and Past and Present

III. CHALLENGING IDENTITIES

8. Bence Solymár and Judit Takács – Wrong Bodies and Real Selves: Transsexual People in the Hungarian Social and Health Care System

9. Anna Borgos – The Boundaries of Identity: Bisexuality in Everyday and Theoretical Contexts

10. Judit Takács – “It is only extra information …” Social Representation and Value Preferences of Hungarian Gay Men

IV. FAMILIES WE CHOOSE

11. Eva Polaskova – The Czech Lesbian Family Study: Investigating Family Practices

12. Alenka Švab – Do They Have a Choice? Reproductive Preferences among Lesbians and Gays in Slovenia

13. Jana Kukucková – Who Does the Dishes?

V. REPRESENTING ‘OTHERS’

14. Kevin Moss – Queer as Metaphor: Representations of LGBT People in Central & East European Film

15. Hadley Z. Renkin – Predecessors and Pilgrims: Lesbian Historymaking and Belonging in Postsocialist Hungary

16. Heidi Kurvinen – Trendy or not? Homosexual representations in Estonian printed media during the late 1980s and early 1990s

17. Monika Pisankeva – Media representations of lesbians and transsexual people in Bulgaria

VI. FEAR AND HATE

18. Aivita Putnina – Sexuality, Masculinity and Homophobia: The Latvian Case

19. Gregory E. Czarnecki – Analogies of PreWar AntiSemitism and PresentDay Homophobia in Poland

20. Ivana Jugovic, Aleksandra Pikic, Nataša Bokan – Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals in Croatia: How the Stigma Shapes Lives

21. Viachaslau Bortnik – Hate Crimes against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in Belarus

Contributors & Index