Innovation despite backsliding—the importance of the events of 7th August 2020 für polish LGBTQIA youth

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 Ga...

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Main Author: Sobczak, Michał (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Human rights review
Year: 2022, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 529-549
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Law of imitation theory
Central and Eastern Europe
Queer anarchism
Homophobia
Poland
LGBTQIA
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1874-6306
DOI:10.1007/s12142-022-00671-3