Digital Dérive Navigating LGBT Related Issues Throughout the Post-Soviet Region
This diagram is the data companion to the video 'EUs Pardoning of Violence Related to the LGBT Community'. This diagram demonstrates one particular path you can take when navigating the internet to conduct research. Each URL acts as a coordinates in the same way we use Global Positioning Services(GPS) to establish points on a map. What has intrigued me and propelled me to develop this and other diagrams in this collection has been the different paths you can take while researching any topic online. Each link becomes a gate, opening up new portals of information and can surprisingly draw lines between topics who's connections are not apparent. Below I have included the links for you to create your own path, further explore the content and to become more familiar with LGBT Social Movements presently happening in Eastern Europe.
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/lgbt-rights?id=1106610 https://www.google.com/search?q=Declartion+of+Human+Rights+to+include+LGBT+people&oq=Declartion+&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j69i57.2846j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8 http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/news-item/bulgaria-must-investigate-and-prosecute-hate-crimes-to-end-climate-of-fear http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2006/08/14/estonian-gay-activist-shocked-at-pride-violence/ https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Estonia+LGBT+violence&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=ncBMVcTxBPCwsATL1YCQCg&ved=0CBwQgQMwAA http://rs21.org.uk/2014/05/02/baltic-pride-not-parliament-has-the-potential-for-lgbt-liberation-in-estonia/ http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/09/26/breaking-u-n-human-rights-council-adopts-lgbt-resolution/ https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=TUAiAQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=Czech+LGBT+violence&ots=tW7TEr8jvL&sig=5eYSwUatXxw55bLJ4lYx6T1Npfc#v=onepage&q=Czech%20LGBT%20violence&f=false http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/09/26/3572892/united-nations-lgbt-violence/ https://www.google.com/search?q=Kosovo+LGBT&oq=Kosovo+LGBT&aqs=chrome..69i57.389j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=Kosovo+LGBT&es_sm=119&tbm=isch&imgil=JkZnBTb_whq0pM%253A%253BHXprbMBwP-qIjM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fcommons.wikimedia.org%25252Fwiki%25252FFile%25253ALGBT_Serbia_and_Kosovo.png&source=iu&pf=m&fir=JkZnBTb_whq0pM%253A%252CHXprbMBwP-qIjM%252C_&usg=__5vmez9i3Dkm5ADtfW3BFORyAkvo%3D http://www.fmreview.org/sogi/fauchier http://www.fmreview.org/en/sogi/fahamu_0.mp3 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seyward-darby/lgbt-rights-kosovo_b_2355890.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/04/01/gay_in_kosovo_and_bosnia_herzegovina_laws_protect_lgbtq_people_but_they.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8669973.stm http://hatecrime.osce.org/bosnia-and-herzegovina
2015
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Digital Dérive: the Story of Le Madame, a Gay Bar that Was Not There
In the spring of 2006 the Warsaw police shut down a beloved gay bar named Le Madame, but rather than accepting this fate, it's patrons organized a sit in which lasted several days. Several activists and journalists have suggested this point in history to be the 'Polish Stonewall', a fitting parallel as this instance too also happened in a bar. A seminal point in American history for the LGBT rights movement, the Stonewall Riot began after a police raid was conducted in the New York City bar. Angered by the continued harassment from the New York City Police, the patrons began to fight back eventually barricading the NYPD into the bar. This embarrassing event for the NYPD ended when the the National Guard had to be called in to 'rescue' the NYPD from inside The Stonewall Inn. Though the story of Le Madame does not end as trimphly, Poland has seen a shift in both the social and political acceptance of LGBT persons.
Scott Valentine
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Internet Dérive: Croatia
Using the software Screenflow, I was able to track the real time approach to document my workflow. It is in these digital dérives I collapse and combine the internet with the physical, questioning its daily function and usage as a 'thing' we inhabit. In this video, I briefly explore the climate around Croatian views on homosexuality, revealing the research methods and pathway I approached this topic. This video is meant to be informative, and is a snapshot of the process. In thinking about collaborative approaches, I felt the need to make transparent the process used to extend how we as researchers can better and more quickly learn about particular subjects and events through our hyperconnected lives online.<br /><br /> link to video: https://youtu.be/pQ98cG9u8_8
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Map of Warsaw Pride Route, 2014
This abstracted map was created by reviewing hours of footage from the Warsaw Pride Parade. During research it became apparent these routes are not publicly distributed online leading one to speculate this removal from the public domain could be for safety concerns. Not unique to this region, pride parades often see a fair share of protests by anti-LGBT advocates. More pressing to this region has been the often recorded violent reactions to these parades. By not having a map, it makes it harder for those against homosexual rights to protest these ephemeral critical masses. It would make logical sense to remove these from the internet thus allowing them to continue while curbing these violent reactions. Here, I parallel this notion, removing any physical mention of the city and place with the exception of the background map of Poland. The use of the 'pink curtains' is a term developed in reference to LGBT cultural in the post-Socialist countries, weaving together the idea of the Iron Curtain with the unofficial color of the LGBT movement: pink.
Scott Valentine
2015
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