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This chapter examines cross-border flows of homosexual activism models in gay and lesbian magazines published in communist Poland, Biuletyn/Etap and Filo. Szulc explains how the magazines encouraged their readers to get involved in activism by drawing on the narrative of ‘shared discrimination’ and presenting success stories of mainly Western homosexual organizations. He also examines the practices of making homosexual histories in the magazines, which favoured the history of the Stonewall Riots. Additionally, Szulc discusses the vision for the Polish homosexual movement developed in the magazines, which centred on the official registration of a homosexual organization, visibility politics and information activism.
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Szulc, L. (2018). (Re)building Politics. In: Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland. Global Queer Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58901-5_7
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