While LGBT activism has increased worldwide, there has been strong backlash against
LGBT people in Eastern Europe. Although Russia is the most prominent anti-gay regime in …

Violent attacks on gay and lesbian activities in the public sphere, coupled with verbal
aggression against sexual minorities by right-wing politicians in Hungary and other …

In 2008 severe and unprecedented violence occurred at the 13th Gay Pride March in
Budapest, Hungary. The event caused a huge wave of discussion on issues of human and …

The EU was a late bloomer where antidiscrimination legislation was con cerned. The
development of Community law regarding non-discrimination and equal opportunities came …

Social movement theories are often built on Western and US-centric understandings of civic
life and the values that underpin it. Studying participation in the LGBT movement in Prague …

Drawing on a rich archive of print and electronic sources, in-depth interviews and participant
observation in three Slovak lesbian and gay nongovernmental organizations Ganymedes …

This thesis applies the key concepts of LGBT studies used for the analysis of Western LGBT
movements to a comparative study of Central European, in particular Hungarian and East …