We Do Not Know What Queers Can Do: LGBT Community Between (In)visibility and Culture Industry in Serbia at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Filipović, Andrija

doi:10.1080/00918369.2018.1511133

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“…The visibility of same-sex relationships is highly contentious, with pride parades regularly met with violence and hostility, and occasionally banned due to high risk of violence (Bilic ́, 2016). At the same time, Serbia currently has an openly lesbian Prime Minister, and the country's ruling, conservative populist elite has also sought to instrumentalize pride parades as a means of demonstrating its readiness to join the EU (Filipovic ́, 2019(Filipovic ́, : 1699. Serbia is thus marked by a rather incongruous combination of public hostility and elite instrumentalization of the pro-gay and lesbian agenda.…”

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The ambivalences of visibility: News consumption and public attitudes to same-sex relationships in the context of illiberalism

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European Journal of Communication

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Over the past decade, the rights of people whose sexual orientation does not conform to prevailing norms have become a divisive issue in many countries. Despite a long tradition of research on media and sexual minorities, the role of the media in these recent backlashes remains poorly understood. We argue that this is partly because work in this area is often underpinned by a simple, linear narrative that unambiguously links visibility to empowerment. We highlight the ambivalent impact of mediated visibility and argue that in the context of elite-driven polarization, illiberalism and low levels of media freedom, visibility can become a vehicle of control. To explore this proposition, we examine the link between media and public attitudes to same-sex relationships in four east European countries, combining a population survey with semi-structured interviews. The results confirm the need to consider the conditions of mediated visibility in particular socio-political contexts, showing that where control over the conditions of visibility remains in the hands of homophobic elites, both Public Service Media and digital media can contribute to negative attitudes.

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“…First, with very few exceptions (e.g. Filipovic ́, 2019;Persson, 2015) existing research is dominated by an optimistic narrative centred on public visibility as a key prerequisite for the advancement of equality. In this narrative, the media feature as an important instrument of visibility, leading to growing public acceptance of sexual minority rights (e.g.…”

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The ambivalences of visibility: News consumption and public attitudes to same-sex relationships in the context of illiberalism

Mihelj

Kondor

Štětka

et al. 2023

European Journal of Communication

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“…Arguably, this different use of urban space builds the foundation for creative industries, where the difference itself produces both symbolic and real capital, especially in relation to the LGBT community. The LGBT clubbing scene developed slowly during the late 1990s and early 2000s (Filipović, 2019; for more on histories of LGBT communities in Serbia see Bilić, 2016aBilić, , 2016b, but today there are only a handful of dedicated LGBT bars and clubs remaining, and LGBT patrons now visit venues that are 'LGBT friendly', in creative industries hubs located in gentrified areas of the city. It is within these gentrified areas, with 'open-minded' bars and clubs, that drag shows, both in commercial and more political forms, are performed.…”

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Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade

Filipović

2022

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article considers forms of drag in Belgrade that are critical of contemporary Serbian society and analyzes ways in which drag both participates in, and critically relates to, the postsocialist transitional socioeconomic environment, especially the creative industries. Becoming a part of the creative industries (re)produces drag, as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender subjects as consumers, while the ‘becoming apart’ of drag offers possible sites of resistance to the dominant cultural, social and economic model. As some performances – by the Ephemeral Confessions collective, Dajana Ho and Dragoslavia – are critical of both current forms of capitalism and of cis-hetero-patriarchal regimes of gender and sexuality, as well as of the ethno-nationalist narrative that has shaped the region of former Yugoslavia, analysis of the Belgrade drag scene results in a conceptualization of a critical practice that is immanent to what is being critiqued – immanent resistance.

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“…Vjeran Miladinović Merlinka was the first 'transvestite' and sex worker who came out as such in the 1980s Yugoslav, mostly Serbian and Croatian, media ( for social context in which non-heterosexual and trans individuals lived at the time, v. Gavrić, Čaušević, 2020;for the 1990s and early 2000s v. Blagojević, Dimitrijević, 2014Bilić, 2016;Filipović, 2019 ). S_he was made famous for the role in Želimir Žilnik's film Dupe od mramora ( Marble ass ) from 1995, and s_he had played in his two earlier films from 1986-Beograde, dobro jutro ( Belgrade, good morning ) and Lijepe žene prolaze kroz grad ( Pretty women walking through the city ).…”

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My Four Dogs: Urban Ecology in Vjeran Miladinović Merlinka’s Terezin sin

Filipović

2022

10.14746/pss

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In this article, I analyze the relations between humans, non-humans, and infrastructure in Vjeran Miladinović Merlinka’s fictionalized autobiography Terezin sin. I argue that queer humans and non-humans share a particular ontological and axiological space and time in urban ecology in relation to the built environment of cis-heteronormative socius grounded in reproductive heterosexuality.The fictionalized autobiography that is explored in this article offers a particular view of minoritarian relation as it depicts a queer form of relationality that is lived sideways to the cis-heteronormativity and reproductive heterosexuality as an oppressive form of life that creates a specific kind of infrastructural intimacy for itself in the urban built environment. Relations between queer humans andnon-humans under these conditions are decidedly messy, as they are described as both caring and exploitative in Terezin sin.

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We Do Not Know What Queers Can Do: LGBT Community Between (In)visibility and Culture Industry in Serbia at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

The ambivalences of visibility: News consumption and public attitudes to same-sex relationships in the context of illiberalism

The ambivalences of visibility: News consumption and public attitudes to same-sex relationships in the context of illiberalism

Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade

My Four Dogs: Urban Ecology in Vjeran Miladinović Merlinka’s Terezin sin

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