RT Article
T1 Innovation despite backsliding—the importance of the events of 7th August 2020 für polish LGBTQIA youth
JF Human rights review
VO 23
IS 4
SP 529
OP 549
A1 Sobczak, Michał
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1826849343
AB In this paper, I analysed the events of 7th August 2020 in Warsaw, when 48 people were detained by the Polish police who brutally raided solidarity demonstration with non-binary activist Margot Szutowicz. The aim of the paper is to explore queer activism in Poland on microsociological level using Gabriel Tarde imitation theory. I tried to show how individual experience of resistance gave rise to new, innovative forms of activism which became a social phenomenon. In my research, I used in-depth interviews with some of detainees and over 180 diaries/memoirs of Polish LGBTQIA people.
K1 Law of imitation theory
K1 Central and Eastern Europe
K1 Queer anarchism
K1 Homophobia
K1 Poland
K1 LGBTQIA
DO 10.1007/s12142-022-00671-3