„MIEJSCE SPOTKAŃ HOMOSEKSUALNIE USPOSOBIONYCH MĘŻCZYZN PO ZMROKU”. DIACHRONICZNE SPOJRZENIE NA PUBLICZNĄ MĘSKO-MĘSKĄ KULTURĘ SEKSUALNĄ W BRESLAU / WROCŁAWIU
“A Meeting Point of Homosexually Inclined Men After Dusk.” A Diachronic Perspective on Public Male-to-Male Sex Culture in Breslau/Wrocław

Author(s): Mathias Foit
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: cruising; urban queer history; Weimar and Nazi Germany; People’s Republic of Poland
Summary/Abstract: This article examines the surprising continuities between public male-to-male sex culture in pre-Second-World-War, German-administered Breslau and its Polish successor, the city of Wrocław. Despite a practically complete population exchange after the war, male cruising occurred mostly in the same settings, which is argued to provide evidence for the fact that urban public male-to-male sex does not occur in random places, but in highly specific spatial contexts. It is possible to talk about a certain topography of cruising: one which, admittedly, is not based on absolute laws, but a set of patterns and regularities.

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