ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the transnational dimensions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) politics and activism in Poland. It focuses on the discussion of transnational activist solidarities together by focusing on their spatial politics. It traces the main contexts for the project, and discusses how one's undertook the research. The chapter focuses on one key aspect of the project namely the concept of solidarity, how it has been theorised in relation to sexual politics in Poland and how the concept was understood, articulated and deployed by the informants in the project. It advances the argument that an understanding of transnational politics in Poland, and other Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, is seriously limited by the operation of an East/West dichotomy. The chapter suggests that solidarity discourses both support and are supported by specific geopolitical imaginaries such as the notion of an East/West binary. Such discourse then reinforces Western European cultural hegemony in sexual politics.
