ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an interview of Romana Ciesla and Violeta about the lesbian meetings in Poland. Ciesla and Violeta are lovers from Krakow and the organization Lambda. They try to be active members of Lambda; for two years they have organized lesbian meetings—gatherings, trips. They gave an advertisement in the gay newspaper Enache about the meeting. From this first appeal they got thirty or forty responses; that was 1991. They organized the first meeting in Krakow for those women who wrote letters. For the second meeting, in autumn 1991, not all of the women from the first meeting came; it was in Zakopane. Ciesla and Violeta's goals are to coordinate a community to encourage other women to contact each other, as well as to meet and edit a lesbian newspaper. It is possible that lesbians living in small towns are afraid to buy such a pornographic newspaper; perhaps they are ashamed to take such a magazine to hand.
