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Rainbow Scarves, or In Four Years It Will Be Too Late

Summary/Abstract: With an outline of the atmosphere of homophobia prevailing on European football stadiums as her point of departure, the author considers identity policies accessible to gay players and fans of non-normative sexual identities. A radical form of resistance against stadium homophobia was, i.a. an initiative (apparently fictitious) of Polish gay football fans, which they called Rainbow Stands. Members of this venture, created in reality by Paweł Demirski and Monika Strzępka as well as actors of the Polski Theatre in Wrocław supporting them, demanded space separated from other fans, i.e. the construction of special stands for fans identifying themselves with the LGBTQ movement. The author analysed this tactical proposal, developed by Demirski and Strzępka in the spectacle Tęczowa Trybuna 2012 (Rainbow Stand 2012), in the light of the anti-social queer theory represented by Lee Edelman.

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