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Secondary Sources for Eastern European and Soviet LGBTQ+ History

Altman, Dennis. “Global Gaze/Global Gays.” GLQ 3, no. 4 (1997): 417–436.

Baer, Brian James. Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Borenstein, Eliot. “About That: Deploying and Deploring Sex in Postsoviet Russia.” In Studies in 20th Century Literature 24, no. 1 (2000): 51-83.

Buyantueva, Radzhana and Maryna Shevtsova, editors. LGBTQ+ Activism in Central and Eastern Europe: Resistance, Representation, and Identity. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Channell-Justice, Emily, editor. Decolonizing Queer Experience: LGBT Narratives from Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2020.

Clech, Arthur. “Between the labor camp and the clinic.” Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities, edited by Richard C.M. Mole (Abingdon, New York : Routledge, 2019), 32-55.

Clech, Arthur. “An inconspicuous sexual dissident in the Georgian Soviet republic: Subjectification, social classes and the culture of suspicion in the late Soviet period.Cahiers du monde russe 62, no. 2-3 (2021): 367-390.

Essig, Laurie. Queer in Russia: A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other. N.C: Duke University Press, 1999.

Hawthorne, Susan.“Ancient Hatred and Its Contemporary Manifestation: The Torture of Lesbians.” Journal of Hate Studies 4, no. 1 (2005): 3358.

Healey, Dan, et Francesca Stella. La dissidence sexuelle et de genre en URSS et dans l’espace postsoviétique. Introduction,Cahiers du monde russe 62, no. 2-3 (2021) : 251-282.

Kuhar, Roman, editor. Beyond the Pink Curtain: Everyday Life of LGBT People in Eastern Europe. Ljubljana, Peace Institute: 2007.

Matthew Frear, “‘Better to be a Dictator than Gay’: Homophobic Discourse in Belarusian Politics,” Europe-Asia Studies73, no. 8 (2021): 1467-1486.

Stella, Francesca. Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/socialism and Gendered Sexualities. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Lalo, Alexei and Nikolai Schitov. “Sexualities in Belarus: Some Major Patterns of Sexual Behavior and Their Cultural Background.” Sexuality and Gender in Postcommunist Eastern Europe and Russia, edited by Aleksandar Štulhofer and Theo Sandfort, 193-214. New York: Haworth Press: 2005.

Miazhevich, Galina. “Negotiating non-heteronormative identities in post-Soviet Belarus and Lithuania.” Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities, edited by Richard C. M. Mole. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2019.

O’Dwyer, Conor. Coming Out of Communism: The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe. New York: New York University Press, 2018.

Sex and Russian Society, edited by Igor Kon and James Riordan, 89-115. Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Štulhofer, Aleksandar and Theo Sandfort, editors. Sexuality and Gender in Post-Communist Eastern Europe and Russia.Florence: Routledge, 2005.

Szulc, Lukasz. Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland: Cross-Border Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Valodzin, Uladzimir. Queer History of Belarus in the second half of the 20th century: a preliminary study. Minsk: Creative Commons, 2016.

Zorgdrager, Heleen. “Homosexuality and hypermasculinity in the public discourse of the Russian Orthodox Church: an affect theoretical approach.” In International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 74, no.3 (2013): 214-239.

Secondary Sources for Romanian LGBTQ+ History

Andreescu, Viviana. “From Legal Tolerance to Social Acceptance: Predictors of Heterosexism in Romania.” In Revista Română De Sociologie 22, no. 3-4 (2011): 20931.

Andreescu, Viviana. “Sexual Minorities, Civil Rights, and Romanians’ Resistance to Social Change.” In Analize Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies 10 (2018): 3868.

Andreescu, Gabriel and Liviu Andreescu. “Church and State in Post-Communist Romania: Priorities on the Research Agenda.” In Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 8, no.4 (2010): 1945.

Cârstocea, Sinziana. “Repères D’une Identité Clandestine: Considrations Historiques Sur L’homosexualité en Roumanie.” In Revue D’histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, no. 5354 (2006): 191210.

Kulpa, Robert and Joanna Mizieliska. “Introduction: Why Study Sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe?” In De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives, edited by Robert Kulpa and Joanna Mizieliska, 1-10. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.

Kulpa, Robert and Joanna Mizieliska. “‘Contemporary Peripheries’: Queer Studies, Circulation of Knowledge and East/West Divide” In De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives, edited by Robert Kulpa and Joanna Mizieliska, 11-26. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.

Nachescu, Voichita. “Hierarchies of Difference: National Identity, Gay and Lesbian Rights, and the Church in Postcommunist Romania.” In Sexuality and Gender in Postcommunist Eastern Europe and Russia, edited by Aleksandar tulhofer and Theo Sandfort, 130-165. New York: Haworth Press, 2005.

Sremac, Srdjan, and R. Ruard Ganzevoort. “The Interplay of Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe.” In Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Srdjan Sremac and R. Ruard Ganzevoort, 1-14. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2015.

Stan, Lavinia, and Lucian Turcescu. “The Romanian Orthodox Church and Post-Communist Democratisation.” In Europe-Asia Studies 52, no. 8 (2000): 146788.

Takács, Judit, and Ivett Szalma. “Social Attitudes towards Homosexuality in Hungary and Romania: Does the Main Religious Denomination Matter?” In Intersections East European Journal of Society and Politics 5, no.1 (2019): 71-99.

Tarta, Mihai. “European Culture Wars: Sexual Nationalism between Euro-Christian and Euro- Secular Civil Religion in Poland and Romania.” In Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Srdjan Sremac and R. Ruard Ganzevoort, 33-51. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2015.

Verdery, Katherine. National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceauescus Romania. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Woodcock, Shannon. “A Short History of the Queer Time of ‘Post-Socialist’ Romania, or Are We There Yet? Let’s Ask Madonna!” In De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives, edited by Robert Kulpa and Joanna Mizielińska, 63-84. Farnham:Ashgate, 2011.

Woodcock, Shannon. “Gay Pride as Violent Containment in Romania: a Brave New EUrope.” In Sextures 1, no. 1 (2009): 1-17.

 

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