Wytwarzanie Europy. Praktyki dyskursywne wokół praw LGBT w Polsce
Production of Europe. Discursive practices of LGBT rights in Poland

Summary/Abstract: In this article I analyze the historical process of production of Europe, including its Eastand West, with reference to the postsocialist transformations in Poland exemplified by dis-cursive practices focused on LGBT rights. I pay particular attention to grassroots discoursesand practices that emerged in Wrocław in the context of two team action research projects co-financed by the European Union and based on the concepts of sexual citizenship and the PinkAgenda of the EU. In the light of these concepts Eastern Europe (including Poland) appearsas “backward” in relation to “modern” Western Europe, whose standards it should implement.Yet, such a vision of Europe is destabilized by grassroots discourses and practices that revealproblems brought by naturalization of a specific model of social positioning of non-heteronor-mative people as a measure of Europeanness. They point rather to the need to capture the mul-tidimensional, relational and dynamic character of Europe that defies binary ways of thinking.

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