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Unit Network Meeting 2025 - Call for Applications
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Apply for History Unit stipend to create queer history content
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Pride funding in flux | History Unit newsletter '06 25
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The Time for Queer Commemoration - News from History Unit, Feb '25
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Queer Stories Past and Present: New Publications from History Unit
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Inside Our Workshop in Germany - News from History Unit, Nov ‘24
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Cross-border Pride: News from History Unit, Oct ‘24
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A Queer Museum in Warsaw? Yes, Please!
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From Anxiety to Insight: History Unit Holds Workshop in Poland
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Cross-border journalism in practice: creating connections in the audience and in the newsroom
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Displacement, Memory, and Joy: New History Unit publications' presentation

Oct 8
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Join the online presentation of new History Unit publications

May 22
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Queer Displacement, Then and Now: Open Call for Journalistic Workshop by History Unit

Apr 22–28
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Queer Stories Past and Present: Join History Unit's First Publication Presentation

Dec 12 2024
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Open Call: Workshop in Germany about Journalistic Approaches to Queer History

Oct 14–20 2024
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Immersive Workshop in Kraków and Oświęcim

Jun 9–16 2024
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In that sense, yes. Collaborative Play Reading

Jun 3
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Documentary film screening: “Forbidden Love - Queer Victims of the Nazi Dictatorship”

May 27

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History Unit: Reframing Queer Narratives in Media

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Started in 2021, ongoing
Locations: Poland, Romania, Moldova, Germany
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Research Award Eastern Europe

Started in 2017, ongoing
Locations: Armenia, Balkans, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine
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European Focus

2022-2024
Locations: Germany, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, Ukraine, Estonia, Poland, Balkans
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Media Conference 2022: Beyond the Front Pages

2022
Locations: Poland, Ukraine
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Reporters in the Field

2015-2022
Locations: Ukraine, Moldova, Balkans, France, Turkey, Italy, Poland
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Lockdown for Independent Media

2020
Locations: Czech Republic, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Hungary, Serbia, Poland, Romania
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Media conference 2018: Face it!

2018
Location: Poland
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Audio Slidshow Workshop

2013
Locations: Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Germany, Ukraine
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Retreats for Ukrainian journalists

2022
Locations: Germany, Poland

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Entkommen aus dem belarussischen Grenzwald

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Obie silne jak skała. Obie przeszły piekło.

Published on Jun 20, 2025
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Among the millions of people murdered by the Nazi regime were thousands of gay men. For a long time, there was no commemoration of them or other queer victims.

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Stories of those who were lacking remembrance acknowledgment. Sometimes unintentionally, but more often purposefully.

Forgotten Stories of Eastern European LGBTQ+ Heroes

Published on Jan 16, 2025
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The QueerMuzeum has opened in Warsaw. It tells of pride, joy and sex, but also of stigmatisation and persecution.

Intertwined Queer Stories: First LGTBIQ Museum in Eastern Europe

Published on Dec 17, 2024
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Ray shares its journey of self-discovery, self-acceptance and struggle for queer rights

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Published on Dec 15, 2024
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Is Zelensky a Trumpist? - Column by Paulina Sigien, Krytyka Politiczna (Warsaw)

Published on Dec 6, 2024
Aren’t the sufferings of all prisoners the same? Why bring up gender issues at all? What’s the point of comparing trauma?

Queer Holocaust Voices – the Price of Silence

Published on Dec 5, 2024
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Natalia's story presents a different, more down-to-earth perspective on queer Ukrainians in Poland.

“I Accept Myself with All My Features”: Ukrainian Queer Person and Her Identity in Catholic Poland

Published on Nov 22, 2024
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A documentary short about Palina, Belarusian actress, director, and singer from Minsk.

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