Connecting gays and lesbians behind the Iron Curtain: the role of HOSI

Roundtable Discussion

February 15, 2022 6:00 PM –
February 15, 2022 8:00 PM

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Roundtable discussion about the role of HOSI in connecting gays and lesbians behind the Iron Curtain

Type Events

Genre roundtable discussion

In cooperation with

Háttér Archívum és Könyvtár / Háttér Archive and Library

Related exhibition(s)

Records Uncovered Records Uncovered 2.0

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Summary

Roundtable discussion about the role of HOSI in connecting gays and lesbians behind the Iron Curtain

How did LGBT activism start in Central and Eastern European countries? How did initiatives in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia interact? And what was the role of the Eastern European Information Pool (EEIP) in Vienna? We talk to Kurt Krickler, former head of the Homosexuelle Initiative (HOSI) Wien, Andrzej Selerowicz, former President of EEIP, and John Clark, former Secretary-General of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA).

participants: Andrzej SELEROWICZ (EEIR), John CLARK (ILGA), Kurt KRICKLER (HOSI Wien)
host: Perica JOVCHEVSKI, Central European University/Blinken OSA
The program will be in English.