Fig 1 - uploaded by Ineta Lipša
Content may be subject to copyright.
The 30 June 1951 entry in Irbe's diary 1. att. 1951. gada 30. jūnija ieraksts Irbes dienasgrāmatā

The 30 June 1951 entry in Irbe's diary 1. att. 1951. gada 30. jūnija ieraksts Irbes dienasgrāmatā

Source publication
Article
Full-text available
The article focuses on male same-sex subculture in public space in Riga during the Second World War and late Stalinism. It analyses the performance of same-sex desire through which the public space was appropriated for male same-sex purposes. The article argues that during the period under discussion, same-sex loving men, who socialised in Riga, pe...

Citations

... For example, Čičelis 2011;Lipša 2017;Lipša 2021;Lipša 2022;Valodzin 2016;Clech 2018;Clech 2021;Põldsam, Arumetsa 2023. 8 For example, Aripova 2020. ...
Article
This article examines the Soviet court verdicts under Article 122 of the Criminal Code of the Soviet Lithuania, which tried men for homosexual relations, as historical sources. The author argues that the documents stored in the contemporary archives remain programmed according to Soviet logic. The 20 verdicts examined reveal that in practice, men in Vilnius Lenin District were mainly tried for having relations with minors or for sexual coercion rather than consensual sexual relations. The testimonies in which the convicted men’s traces of subjectivity can be detected are proposed to be defined as ‘post-voice’. In some cases, these ‘post-voices’ reveal how the ‘weak’ resorted to their own tactics when they found themselves in the judicial and political power field.
Article
The research aims to analyse oral history interviews of heterosexual people about their experience with homosexuals during the Soviet times. Eight interviews were selected for the analysis based on two criteria – the research participant belongs to the Soviet generation, and he/she has personally known homosexuals during the Soviet times. The paper presents interviews as a primary source, illuminating several challenges with obtaining the interviews and their interpretation. In addition, common narratives of communicative memories’ evidence and their influence on current views of homosexuals in Latvian society, including its historical metanarrative and historical record, which relies on the nation’s victimisation during the Soviet times, are analysed.
Article
Full-text available
The article focuses on the phenomenon of queer domesticity in Latvia in the 20th century, analyzing evidence of a homosexual couple living together in a house they built in Rīga. Adapting to different political regimes, two men who met while working in the theatre could maintain their lives together for about twenty years. To do this, they had to use various adaptation tactics and subterfuge and create their own concept of family in their daily lives. Their subterfuge tactics have been so successful that their queerness and cohabitation are forgotten today. This case study adds to the knowledge of queerness during the Soviet era by highlighting the complex relationship between personal freedom and conformism concerning state power in the artistic environment.