Queer Repetitions? LGBTIQ+ Communities and (Post-)Yugoslav History

Autor(en)

Aleksandar Rankovic

Abstrakt

The histories of LGBTIQ+ communities often heavily rely on historiographies of democratization and teleologies of progress. As a result, LGBTIQ+ communities seem to have become agents solely in the light of regime change while their socialist pasts have been more difficult to access. Instead of searching for a starting point of LGBTIQ+ activism in (Post-)Yugoslavia, this essay tries to reconnect multiple points in time where LGBTIQ+ actors staged protest and sought for liberation. Through the lens of repetition, I want to revisit the discourses and trajectories of LGBTIQ+ activism in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav space. By looking into various configurations of queer activism – from “homosexual socialization” in socialism to EuroPride in 2022 – I want to provide an analytical framework within which the radical potential of queerness can be uncovered beyond ready-made categories of transitional democracies or minority protection rights.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Slawistik

Journal

Zeszyty Łużyckie. Journal for Minority Studies

Band

59

Seiten

53-78

ISSN

0867-6364

DOI

https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.1109

Publikationsdatum

2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

601022 Zeitgeschichte, 601028 Geschlechtergeschichte, 509010 Minderheitenforschung

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/9e596199-218f-4eee-8729-dbd6d469cdff