The Civic Café: Visibility as a premise of equality!!!
4th of July,
@tranzitiasi, in the frame of Iasi Pride 2026 events
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, 700115, Iași
Program:
13:00 - 13:30 Book launch and performative reading / Launch of the book
tranzit 20+
13:30 - 15:00 Public presentation by Florin Buhuceanu:
Queer visual histories. Visibility as a premise of equality
We are proud to invite you for a joint event between Rise Out and tranzit ro/Iași within the frame of Iasi Pride that will take place on the 4th of July @tranzitiasi space.
Together, we start by performing a reading with excerpts from tranzit 20+ publication, applying a methodology proposed by its two editors: Flóra Gadó and Borbála Soós.
The reading will be followed by Florin Buhuceanu’s presentation: Queer visual histories. Visibility as a premise of equality, where, starting from the premise that 20th-century media visibility of queerness was a discourse about (not by) queer people, the author traces how queer self-representation nonetheless persisted.
“Their history is not one of absence, but rather one of fragment and fluidity, caught in a continuous need for negotiation and coding in relation to the dominant, heteronormative cultural, social, and political regimes in Romania. In this context, I will analyze photographs, collages, and a series of visual artifacts created by forerunner figures of the LGBT rights movement.” Excerpt from the volume Queer Representations and Self-Representations in Totalitarian Romania / Florin Buhuceanu
Florin Buhuceanu (b. 1971) is a human rights activist and president of the ACCEPT Association since 1998, where his work led to the decriminalization of same-sex relationships in Romania and, in 2023, victory in Buhuceanu and Ciobotaru v. Romania before the European Court of Human Rights. A scholar of Queer Representations in 20th Century Romania (CESI, University of Bucharest), he is the author of Homohistories. The Coming Out (Humanitas, 2022) and The Right to Have Rights (Maiko, 2024), and curator of the exhibitions Queer. History Recovered (MNAC, 2019) and Invisibility as the Norm (Chișinău, 2024).
This event is organised in partnership between Rise OUT and tranzit ro/ Iasi on the ocasion of Iasi Pride 2026.
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