Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0069667

Zusammenfassung

Queer cultures make one of the largest gaps in our uneven knowledge about the past due to a long and often continued criminalization and pathologization of LGBT+ expression across the globe. "Light On! Queer Literatures and Cultures under Socialism" emerges from such silences in the formerly socialist East-Central part of Europe and their alarming abuse by the growing right-wing populist movements, which over the past decade have justified introducing anti-LGBT+ laws and initiatives from Russia to Poland and beyond by the protection of respective nations from "non-traditional values." This pro...