East European Gay Bibliography

GENERAL

Baker, John Roman. The Prostitution Plays. Amsterdam: Aputheatre, 2000.

HOSI Wien. Rosa Liebe unterm roten Stern. Kiel: Frühlungs Erwachen, 1984.

Long, Scott, et al. Index on Censorship, Vol. 24, No. 1 (1995), 90-104.

Long, Scott in The Global Emergence of Gay & Lesbian Politics. Phila: Temple U Pr., 1999.

Moss, Kevin. "The Underground Closet: Political and Sexual Dissidence in Eastern Europe," in Ellen E. Berry, ed., Genders 22: Postcommunism and the Body Politic (1995), 229-251.

Torra, Michael Jose. "Gay Rights after the Iron Curtain." Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Summer/Fall 1998), 73-87.

Central Europe Review,Vol. 1, No. 7, (Aug. 1999) Homosexuality in Eastern Europe.

ALBANIA

Young, Antonia. Women Who Become Men: Albanian Sworn Virgins. NY: Berg, 2000.

CZECH REPUBLIC

SOHO Revue (gay journal in Czech)

Nenadál, Radoslav. My Te zazdíme, Aido. Prague: SOHO press, 1993.

Pastyr, Jirí. Smutek sebesám. Prague: Ohnisko, 1993.

GDR

Lemke, Jürgen. Gay Voices from East Germany. Bloomington: Indiana U. Pr., 1991.

von Mahlsdorf, Charlotte. Ich Bin Meine Eigene Frau. Edition Dia, 1992.
In English: I am My Own Woman: The Outlaw Life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Berlin's Most Distinguished Transvestite. Tr. Jean Hollander. Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1995. (Also a film.)

HUNGARY

Mások (gay journal in Hungarian)

Galgóczi Erzsébet. Törvényen kivül és belül. Budapest: Szépirodalmi könyvkiadó, 1983.
In English: Another Love, trans. by Ines Rieder and Felice Newmann. Pittsburgh: Cleis Pr., 1991. (Film made by Makk in 1982)

Nádas Péter. Emlékiratok könyve. Budapest: Szépirodalmi könyvkiadó, 1986.
In English: A Book of Memories. Tr. Ivan Sanders with Imre Goldstein. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

Tóth László. A homoszexualitásról. Bp: Szociális Munka Gyakorlata, 1994.

POLAND

journal: Inaczej

Gombrowicz, Witold. Trans-Atlantyk. Tr. Carolyn French and Nina Karsov. New Haven: Yale U. Pr., 1994

Jöhling, Wolfgang, ed. Dyskretne namietnosci: antologia polskiej prozy homoerotycznej. Poznan: Softpress, 1992.

Pankowski, Marian. Rudolf. Oficyna Poetów i Malarzi, 1980.
In English: Rudolf. Tr. John and Elizabeth Maslen, Evanston: Northwestern U. Pr., 1996.

Romanowicz, Antoni. Nie znany swiat. Cieszyn: Delta, 1992.

Selerowicz, Andrzej. Leksykon kochajacych inaczej. Poznan: Softpress, 1994.

Stryjkowski, Julian. Milczenie. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1993.

SLOVENIA

Revolver (Slovene magazine, some in English!)

Mozetic, Brane, ed. Modra Svetloba: homoeroticna ljubezen v slovenski literaturi. Ljubljana: zalozba SKUC, 1990.

UKRAINE

YUGOSLAVIA

Davidovich, Boris L. (pseudonym). Serbian Diaries. Tr. Dragan Vujanic. London: Gay Men's Press, 1996.

Karanovic, Srdjan. Dnevnik jednog filma: Virdzina. Beograd, 1998

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