Despite growing interest in contemporary LGBTQ+ politics in the \u201cEastern Bloc\u201d (i.e. state-socialist countries in the period between 1945 and 1990) as well as the ongoing historicizing of life under socialism, \u201chomosexual politics\u201d and state-socialism are rarely examined together.<\/p>\n
From the 1960s the totalitarian state control in an increasing number of Eastern Bloc countries was replaced by a milder form of authoritarian control that left some space for private life, which was at least not directly controlled. Nevertheless the particular lived realities of state-socialism including state surveillance, the lack of private space, along with a deep-seated homophobia played a crucial role in shaping the lives of people in East-Central Europe.<\/p>\n
In her presentation Judit Tak\u00e1cs will provide a historical contextualization and some illustrations of\u00a0queer life behind the Iron Curtain\u00a0on the basis of mainly Hungarian archive material and in-depth interviews with people who lived through that experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","event_category":[460],"class_list":["post-5863","veranstaltung","type-veranstaltung","status-publish","hentry","event_category-events-in-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/veranstaltung\/5863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/veranstaltung"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/veranstaltung"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=5863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}