Journal article
Authors list: Schindler, Franz
Publication year: 2013
Pages: 127-12+
Journal: Osteuropa
Volume number: 63
Issue number: 10
ISSN: 0030-6428
eISSN: 2509-3444
Publisher: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag
Abstract:
Homophobia is not widespread in the Czech Republic. Tolerance towards sexual minorities is part of a liberal attitude towards sexuality. This liberal attitude feeds on traditional Czech anticlericalism and advanced secularisation. The church's moral and sexual-ethical beliefs go largely unheard. Nonetheless, homosexual acts were liable to prosecution until 1961. But under socialism, gay life remained. taboo. Only the Velvet Revolution created the conditions that homosexuals needed to speak out openly and stand up for their equal treatment under the law. Today, gays and lesbians have arrived in the midst of Czech society.
Citation Styles
Harvard Citation style: Schindler, F. (2013) Trying on "Rose-Colored Glasses" Czechs and the Sexual Minority, Osteuropa : Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens, 63(10), pp. 127-12+
APA Citation style: Schindler, F. (2013). Trying on "Rose-Colored Glasses" Czechs and the Sexual Minority. Osteuropa : Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens. 63(10), 127-12+.
