hojte lide čumblru..! Potřeboval bych nějaké stránky kdy bych našel něco o historii queer lidí v Česku, nejlíp z roku 1900. Díky :D Chystám se na prezentaci o historii pride, jak v zahraničí tak i tady, mám homofobní dějepisářku a letos si chci vybírat queer téma na vše na co můžu. Děkuji všem co ozvali nebo ozvou. :)
Picture of two women dancing at T-Club, a gay bar in Prague. Picture taken between 1983 - 1985 by Libuse Jarcovjakova. The entire T-Club project can be viewed here on Jarcovjakova's site - http://www.jarcovjakova.com/albums/t-club-1983-1985/.
On the topic of weird conversations had with family over the Christmas holidays, I present to you “Why representation is important, Czech edition”.
We were talking about weird names with my mom and she told me that back in the 90s and early 2000s, a lot of Romani started giving their kids Hispanic-sounding names. Because in the 90s, after the Steel Curtain fell, Hispanic telenovellas came to our country and the Romani people saw someone that looked like them and identified with it.
My mom told it in “Dumb G*psies, so fucking cringe” way, but honestly, it really underscores how important representation is.
There is very few Romani people in Czech TV/movies. And if they are, they’re dumb thieves, criminals or homeless. I think there had been some more recents shows that had more prominent Romani characters, but they still mostly fell into the “low class, low education, living off of welfare or doing shit jobs for drinking money” stereotypes.
(Because otherwise, there’s massive racist backlash, unfortunately. A while back, a black character showed up on a Czech TV show as an American boyfriend to one of the characters and the Czech internet exploded with hate and “stop pushing your woke agenda on us”, just for a “fun” example.)
So when foreign TV came in and it had brown people outside of those boxes, even if they were not Romani, the community gravitated to it, because it was the closest thing to representation they got.
And Czech queers gravitate to so many characters (often excentric and effeminate male characters and badass women) for our scraps of representation.
So, basically, I think it’s far more cringe that Czech TV/movies gave no representation to one of our countries biggest racial minorities, so they had to find it elsewhere, than that they named their kids hispanic names. Sorry, not sorry.
Photos of lesbians taken between 1983-1985 by Czech photographer Libuse Jarcovjakova in T-Club, a gay bar in Prague. Link to her website - http://www.jarcovjakova.com/albums/t-club-1983-1985/
In the Czech Republic on June 1st we don't say: "happy Pride month" we say "happy children's day" while all the czech gays are giggling. And I think that's beautiful.