ALTERNATIVE SEXUALITIES AND SUBVERSION OF
GENDER IDENTITIES ARE SO UNACCEPTABLE TO THE
PREVAILING HETERONORMATIVE IDEOLOGY THAT IT
AT BEST TOLERATES THEM OR PUSHES THEM INTO A
“TRANSPARENT CLOSET”: THROUGH THE SILENCE THAT
IS OFTEN SEEN AS A POLITICALLY CORRECT RESPONSE TO
THE ALTERNATIVE SEXUALITIES AND GENDER ISSUES, AND
WITH AN OBSESSIVE INTERVENTION OF SIGNS DESIGNED
TO ENSURE DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN “THEM” AND
“US”. THIS COLLECTION EFFECTIVELY PROBLEMATIZES
THE IMPOSED HETEROSEXUALITY IN THE DICHOTOMIZED
CONCEPTION OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER AND THE
INEQUALITIES REINFORCED BY AN APPEAL TO THAT
DICHOTOMY. AT THE SAME TIME - THE COLLECTION,
WHICH FOCUSES ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE POSITION OF
LGBT PEOPLE IN CERTAIN EAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES -
IMPLICITLY DRAWS ATTENTION TO THE HIERARCHICAL
DIVISIONS OF EUROPE AND TO THE “OTHERNESS” OF
EASTERN EUROPE.

Metka Mencin Čeplak, University of Ljubljana