Queer Comrades: Sexual Citizenship and LGBTQ Lives in Eastern Europe

Through the lens of film, literature, theater, and art, this course explores what it means to be a queer citizen of Eastern Europe. Countering ideas of inherent backwardness, which tend to erase the existence of a diverse group of people, we will get to know works of art that bear witness to the wealth of queer experiences in 20th century Eastern Europe. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 3220 or 3220.02.