Společnost pro queer paměť

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Společnost pro queer paměť , abbreviated to SPQP , German Society for Queer Memory , is a Czech organization in the field of LGBT ( L esbian, G ay, B isexual and T ransgender) and Queer . It was founded in 2013 and has been running the Centrum queer paměti (Center for Queer Memory) project, an archive of memories , since 2015 .

History and activity

In 2013, the historian Jan Seidl and a few friends founded the company SPQP to create an LGBT and queer platform for intergenerational dialogues in Prague and the Czech Republic; a museum and archive of the community should also be established. The activist and board member of the Milena Bartlová project described one of the reasons : "Until then, there were only police and psychiatric archives on homosexuals in the Czech Republic, which stigmatized this group".

An archive was finally created on June 1, 2015 as part of the Centrum queer paměti project in Prague. It is an alternative archive on this subject, which makes particular use of the oral history method and reproduces the voices of those affected. It is seen as an important instrument with which a breakthrough out of forced oblivion can succeed - and that, according to Bártlová, is “a prerequisite for the excluded to be able to return to their kinship generations and family ties”.

The founding date was chosen carefully by the SPQP: it was the 147th anniversary of the first publicly known campaign by homosexuals in Bohemia. At that time, at the end of the 1860s, an unknown author had written to the well-known physiologist and politician Jan Evangelista Purkyně , in which he asked him to investigate the causes of homosexuality and to stand up for impunity (which was then only half-heartedly) .

As a model for the center served u. a. such institutions as SchwuZ in Berlin or QWien in Vienna. One of the main focuses of the centre's activities are non-heterosexual seniors.

In the Centrum queer paměti the SPQP runs a number of other campaigns. This includes exhibitions, a library with fiction and specialist literature on the subject is available, there is a digital library, a museum, visits by school classes are organized; the SPQP also takes part in the annual Prague Pride parades .

On May 17, 2016, the company accepted the bePROUD award 2015 for the opening of the center. At the event, attended by personalities from abroad, the award was presented by V. M. Hoeks, Ambassador of the Netherlands, in his Prague residence.

Advisory Board

The SPQP Scientific Council includes not only well-known personalities from the Czech Republic, but also some foreign activists and scientists. In extracts:

and other.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Martina Vyroubalová: Gayové se družili v bazénu i garáži, louce za Teskem jsou věrní 80 let , report in brno.iDNES.cz of November 16, 2015, online at: /brno.idnes.cz / ...
  2. ↑ a b Milena Bartlová: Společnost pro queer paměť , online at: queerpamet.cz/.../spqp/
  3. ↑ a b c d Komunita gayů a leseb má své centrum paměti , report in praha.iDNES.cz from June 1, 2015, online at: praha.idnes.cz / ...
  4. ↑ Jan Seidl et al .: Od žaláře k oltáři: Emancipace homosexuality v českých zemích od roku 1867 do současnosti , Host, Brno 2012, p. 65., ISBN 978-80-7294-585-6 , cited. according to: Markéta Faustová: Registrované partnerství a jeho právní důsledky ve vztahu k náhradní rodinné péči , Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague, online at: is.cuni.cz/.../120175108 , p. 12, also Jan Seidl: Homosexualita v praxi a discourse on trestního práva, medicíny a občanské společnosti od vydání trestního zákona z roku 1852 do přijetí trestního zákona z roku 1961 , Faculty of Human Studies at Charles University in Prague, online at: is.cuni.cz3 , p. 76 7621
  5. ↑ Petra Jansová: Praha otevřela muzeum homosexuality, zaměří se na seniory , report from the Aktuálně.cz portal, online at: magazin.aktualne.cz / ...
  6. ↑ LGBT spolky se zajímají o starší generaci , Rovné příležitosti magazine of the Gender Studies Society, online at: zpravodaj.genderstudies.cz / ...
  7. ↑ CENTRUM QUEER PAMĚTI , online at: queerpamet.cz/ , with subpages
  8. ↑ Ceny BEPROUD jsou rozdány , report of the Boyler portal from May 17, 2016, online at: boyler.cz / ... ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Vědecká rada , online at: queerpamet.cz/...rada

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