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In this article I analyze the historical process of production of Europe, including its East and West, with reference to the postsocialist transformations in Poland exemplified by discursive practices focused on LGBT rights. I pay particular attention to grassroots discourses and practices that emerged in Wrocław in the context of two team action research projects cofinanced by the European Union and based on the concepts of sexual citizenship and the Pink Agenda of the EU. In the light of these concepts Eastern Europe (including Poland) appears as “backward” in relation to “modern” Western Europe, whose standards it should implement. Yet, such a vision of Europe is destabilized by grassroots discourses and practices that reveal problems brought by naturalization of a specific model of social positioning of non-heteronormative people as a measure of Europeanness. They point rather to the need to capture the multidimensional, relational and dynamic character of Europe that defies binary ways of thinking.
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