Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland: Cross-Border Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines

Traces the fascinating history of the first Polish gay and lesbian magazines to explore the globalization of LGBT identities and politics in Central and Eastern Europe during the twilight years of the Cold War.

It details the emergence of homosexual movement and charts cross-border flows of cultural products, identity paradigms and activism models in communist Poland.

The work demonstrates that Polish homosexual activists were not locked behind the Iron Curtain, but actively participated in the transnational construction of homosexuality.