The Social Diversity Department of the Municipality of Wrocław, Wrocław City Museum, and the curatorial team, led by Joanna Ostrowska, whose members are Ewa Pluta, Tomasz Łukasz Nowak, Joanna Hytrek-Hryciuk, Krzysztof Tomasik, and Piotr Laskowski, invite you to the exhibition: ‘Recovered Stories. Queer in Lower Silesia’ Henryk Tomaszewski Museum of Theatre, pl Wolności 7A, Wrocław
The exhibition initiates the process of queering the history of Lower Silesia – recovering fragments that for decades remained in the shadows. It tells the story of queer life between 1871–1990+, from persecution and silence, to the creation of communities the challenging of gender boundaries and the preserving of alternative memories.
The year 1945 becomes in this narrative both an ending and a beginning of new queer stories – from the German past, through the memory of the Eastern Borderlands of Poland, to the experience of the ‘new’ communist reality.
The exhibition presents an important, though at times difficult, fragment of the history of Lower Silesia. Therefore, it includes sensitive content: the Holocaust, death of a loved one (including suicide), war, violence, discrimination on the basis of religion, class, sexual orientation, gender identity; intimate/sexual relations, interrogation by security services, arrest. Entry for minors should be subject to the decision of their guardians.
More information: https://www.wroclaw.pl/go/wydarzenia/sztuka/1401659-wystawa-historie-odzyskane-queer-na-dolnym-slasku