Records Uncovered 2.0
LGBTQI+ Histories in Central and Southeastern Europe
kiállításdesign és grafika I exhibition and graphic design: BOGYÓ Virág, SZMOLKA Zoltán
ACCEPT, Bukarest I Bucharest; Arhiv ŠKUC (Magnus, Lesbian Lilit), Ljubljana; Biblioteka i Archiwum Lambdy Warszawa (Lambda Varsó Könyvtár és Archívum | Lambda Warsaw Library & Archive); Douglas CONRAD; Jaroslav GYURIK; IHLIA, Amszterdam I Amsterdam; Iniciatíva Inakosť, Pozsony I Bratislava; Jana Jablonická ZEZULOVÁ; Libuše JARCOVJÁKOVÁ; Ryszard KISIEL; Labris, Belgrád I Belgrade; Labrisz Leszbikus Egyesület I Labris Lesbian Association, Budapest; Lepa MlAĐENOVIĆ; Muzeul Istoriei și Culturii Queer din România (A Queer-Történelem és Kultúra Múzeuma Romániában, Bukarest I Romanian Museum of Queer History and Culture, Bucharest); Nela PAMUKOVIĆ; Polityka; Peter RAUSCH; Roza Klub, Ljubljana; Sonntags-Club e.V., Berlin; SZŐKE Zsanett; Lukasz SZULC; TAKÁCS Mária
The exhibition Records Uncovered 2.0, organized by Blinken OSA and Háttér Archive and Library, at the Galeria Centralis, presents LGBTQI+ histories of Central and Southeastern Europe from the post-WWII period to the early 2000s. The exhibition is accompanied by film screenings, roundtable discussions, and other related events.
Records Uncovered 2.0: LGBTQI+ Histories in Central and Southeastern Europe is an exhibition by Blinken OSA and the Háttér Archive and Library, which presents the divergences and commonalities among LGBTQI+ movements in Central and Southeastern Europe in the second half of the last century. Through legal documentations, media reports, private and institutional correspondence, art works, and ephemera, this exhibition evinces the understanding of non-heteronormative sexualities as well as the treatment of sexual minorities in countries that commonly shared two different political goals at two different periods: the establishment of a new Communist society from the mid-1940s, and the transition toward a democratic society from the 1990s.
Records Uncovered 2.0 builds on our online Records Uncovered exhibition, launched in February 2021, expanding it in several respects. This volume adds a separate section with curated findings from our common “archival research lab,” conducted in the past 10 months, which document the lives of trans-, intersex, or other gender non-conforming individuals during State Socialism and the first years of the democratic transition in Central and Southeastern Europe.
The second expansion of the initial online exhibition is composed of contributions received from individuals and partner organizations. These refer mainly to the history of LGBTQI+ activism in Poland, Slovakia, and the USSR, before the fall of the Iron Curtain. Lastly, the opportunity to present the exhibition this year in a physical format in Blinken OSA’s Galeria Centralis in Budapest, gave us a reason for restructuring and significantly expanding on the history of the LGBTQI+ communities in Hungary, which this year we set in the focus of all the exhibition sections.
NOT RECOMMENDED BELOW AGE OF 18.
The exhibition was organized by the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives and the Háttér Archive and Library.