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