1st Edition
Queers in State Socialism Cruising 1970s Poland
1. Introduction: queers in the People’s Republic of Poland: an uneven landscape
TOMASZ BASIUK AND JĘDRZEJ BURSZTA
Part 1: Socialities and their literary models2. Three circles of male homosexual life in state-socialist Poland
JĘDRZEJ BURSZTA
3. One’s younger self in personal testimony and literary translation
TOMASZ BASIUK4. “Transgression has become a fact”: a Gothic genealogy of queerness in the People’s Republic of Poland
BŁAŻEJ WARKOCKI
5. Queens and faggots, Petites Folles et Pédales: representation of Communist-era Polish queers in translations of Lubiewo ( Lovetown )
MATEUSZ WOJCIECH KRÓLPart 2: Expert discourses6. Diagnosing transsexualism, diagnosing society: the blurred genres of Polish sexology in the 1970s and 1980s
MARIA DĘBIŃSKA
7. “Treatment is possible and effective?”: Polish sexologists and queers in correspondence in late state socialism
AGNIESZKA KOŚCIAŃSKA
8. “No authorities are interested in us, no one interferes in our affairs?”: policing homosexual men in the People’s Republic of Poland
KAROLINA MORAWSKAPart 3: Queer intelligibility and unintelligibility9. “No one talked about it”: the paradoxes of lesbian identity in pre-1989 Poland
MAGDALENA STAROSZCZYK10. Queer (in)visibility in the art of the People’s Republic of Poland
KAROL RADZISZEWSKI AND WOJCIECH SZYMAŃSKI
Biography
Tomasz Basiuk is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw. He authored Exposures: American Gay Men’s Life Writing since Stonewall (2013), a monograph on the novelist William Gaddis (published in Polish in 2003); co-edited, with Dominika Ferens and Tomasz Sikora, three volumes of essays on queer studies: Odmiany odmieńca/A Queer Mixture (2002), Parametry pożądania (2006), and Out Here (2006); guest-edited a special journal issue on gender and sexuality (Dialogue and Universalism XX.5–6, 2010); and co-edited, with Krystyna Mazur and Sylwia Kuźma-Marowska, The American Uses of History. Essays on Public Memory (2011). He is the co-founder of the online queer studies journal InterAlia (since 2006), a former Fulbright visiting scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Research Fellow at Indiana University at Bloomington. Basiuk served as Principal Investigator in the HERA-funded "Cruising the 1970s. Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures."
Jędrzej Burszta holds a PhD in cultural studies from the SWPS University in Warsaw (2019). He is Affiliated Faculty Member at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. His research interests include ethnography, queer theory, American speculative fiction, and popular culture. In 2015, together with Zuzanna Grębecka, he authored an ethnography of personal memories of the Soviet Army stationing in Legnica during state socialism in Poland, entitled Mówiono "druga Moskwa." Wspomnienia legniczan o stacjonowaniu Armii Radzieckiej w latach 1945–1993 (They Called it "Little Moscow." Memories of Soviet Army Stationing in Legnica in the Years 1945–1933). He is also a novelist and writes for the theatre.
