LGBTQ+ Europe in 2021: Blog series
26 February 2021
February is LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK. To mark this occasion, we've published three new pieces on the ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûEurope BlogÌýfrom researchers and students working on queer issues in Europe.
![A group of marchers in a Gay Pride march in Poland crossing a street. Many are carrying or wearing rainbow flags.](/european-institute/sites/european_institute/files/styles/large_image/public/lgbtqmarch_europe.jpg?itok=K3TARpw3)
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, ESRC-funded PhD Candidate at UCL, explores the challenges queer refugees and support organisations have faced in Germany since 2015.
, Final Year Russian Studies Student at ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûSSEES, explores how queerness and ideas of European values intersect in Russia
Richard C.M. Mole, Professor of Political Sociology (ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûSSEES), researches identity, sexuality, and migration, particularly of queer individuals in Eastern Europe. In this piece, he looks at the experiences of queer Poles leaving their home towns and migrating to Warsaw or elsewhere in Europe, where they can more freely explore or express their sexuality.
Richard Mole’s new Open Access edited volume onÌýÌýwill be published by ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûPress on 8 March 2021.