The 21 articles of this volume illustrate the increasingly conspicuous ways of LGBT existence being specifically characteristic to Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, East-Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
Content:
- Foreword – Gert Hekma
- Introduction: What is Beyond the Pink Curtain? – Judit Takács and Roman Kuhar
I. OUT WE COME
- Down and Out in Belgrade: An Ethnographic Account on the Everyday Life Experiences of Serbian Gays and Lesbians [Serbia] – Liselotte van Velzen
- The Family Secret: Parents of Homosexual Sons and Daughters [Slovenia] – Roman Kuhar
- Disrupting the (Hetero)normative: Coming-out in the Workplace in Lithuania [Lithuania] – Jolanta Reingardiene and Arnas Zdanevicius
II. MAPPING THE SCENES
- The Changing Space of the Gay and Lesbian Community in the Czech Republic [Czech Republic] – Katerina Nedbálková
- Values Reflected in Style in a Lesbian Community in Budapest [Hungary] – Rita Béres-Deák
- Living la vida Internet: Some notes on the cyberization of Polish LGBT community [Poland] – Anna Gruszczynska
- ‘East’ Berlin: Lesbian and Gay Narratives on Everyday Life, Social Acceptance, and Past and Present [East Germany] – Frédéric Jörgens
III. CHALLENGING IDENTITIES
- Wrong Bodies and Real Selves: Transsexual People in the Hungarian Social and Health Care System [Hungary] – Bence Solymár and Judit Takács
- The Boundaries of Identity: Bisexuality in Everyday and Theoretical Contexts [Hungary] – Anna Borgos
- ‘It is only extra information …’ Social Representation and Value Preferences of Hungarian Gay Men [Hungary] – Judit Takács
IV. FAMILIES WE CHOOSE
- The Czech Lesbian Family Study: Investigating Family Practices [Czech Republic] – Eva Polaskova
- Do They Have a Choice? Reproductive Preferences among Lesbians and Gays in Slovenia [Slovenia] – Alenka Švab
- Who Does the Dishes? [Slovakia] – Jana Kukucková
V. REPRESENTING ‘OTHERS’
- Queer as Metaphor: Representations of LGBT People in Central & East European Film [Eastern Europe] – Kevin Moss
- Predecessors and Pilgrims: Lesbian History-making and Belonging in Post-socialist Hungary [Hungary] – Hadley Z. Renkin
- Trendy or not? Homosexual Representations in Estonian Printed Media During the Late 1980s and Early 1990s [Estonia] – Heidi Kurvinen
- ‘Gays and Transvestites Occupied the House.’A Snapshot of LGBT Representations in the Bulgarian Media [Bulgaria] – Monika Pisankaneva
VI. FEAR AND HATE
- Sexuality, Masculinity and Homophobia: The Latvian Case [Latvia] – Aivita Putnina
- Analogies of Pre-War Anti-semitism and Present-Day Homophobia in Poland [Poland] – Gregory E. Czarnecki
- Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals in Croatia: How the Stigma Shapes Lives [Croatia] – Ivana Jugović, Aleksandra Pikić, Nataša Bokan
- Hate Crimes against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in Belarus [Belarus] – Viachaslau Bortnik
Contributors and Index