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Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland

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In this chapter, Szulc challenges the idea of a wholesale rupture in 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in respect to LGBT issues, problematizes the narrative of the region’s ‘transition’ after the collapse of the Iron Curtain and reflects on conceptualizing CEE as a ‘region’. Additionally, he argues to recognize that the globalization of homosexuality has taken place in CEE already during the Cold War and develops a model of networked sexual globalization. Finally, Szulc points out that queer wars are a hoax, that is, they stem from regional othering rather than ‘essential’—‘natural’ or ‘traditional’—differences between particular regions.

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Szulc, L. (2018). Conclusion. In: Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland. Global Queer Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58901-5_8

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