History of Homosexuality in Croatia Collection

The History of Homosexuality in Croatia Collection covers some of the most salient aspects of Croatian gay and lesbian private and public life in the socialist period (1945-1990). Court verdicts for same-sex sexual relations testify to the active institutional persecution of homosexuality, mostly in the immediate post-war period, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Personal memories and oral history recollections illustrate the harsh everyday life reality of homosexuals in socialist Yugoslavia, but they also tell amazing stories of individual or collective resistance to institutional and social homophobia.

Location:
- Zagreb Petrinjska ulica, Croatia 10000
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Date of founding:
- 2007
Featured items:
- Appeal letter against Zagreb District Court verdict K 236/949-7, December 1949
- Marošević, Toni. Notes for “Frigidna utičnica” [The Frigid Socket] radio show. 1984. Manuscript

Homage to Josip Broz Tito Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb

The collection of photographs by Croatian conceptual artist Tomislav Gotovac presents four performances (Reading the Newspapers, Listening to the Radio, Watching Television and Telephoning) from the 1980 and 1981 in which the artist awaited the death of Yugoslavian President Josip Broz Tito, thus underscoring the social and media psychosis of that moment. The work used a subversive strategy by which the artist indirectly drew the public and socialist regime into the performance, leaving them to think: what is the artist showing?

Location:
- Zagreb Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Croatia 10000
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Date of founding:
- 1991
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Homérosz Association - Háttér Society Archives

Gossiping and police reports shaped legends of homosexual and queer subcultures in socialist Hungary. The records of the first Hungarian homosexual association provide unique insights into the opportunities for self-organisation and collective identity, beyond official and popular misrepresentation.

Location:
- Budapest Csanády utca 4b, Hungary 1132
Topics:
- alternative lifestyles and resistance of the everydays
- human rights movements
Date of founding:
- 1995
Featured items:
- Founding documents of Homérosz Organisation

Hristo Damyanov Ognyanov Collection

The collection consists of documents pertaining to Hristo Damyanov Ognyanov, a leading figure of the Bulgarian democratic opposition in exile. The collection is located at the Central State Archive in Sofia. Hristo Ognyanov (born 1911, died 1997) was a writer and journalist. He was part of different Bulgarian exile communities, in Austria, the USA, and West Germany. He worked for Bulgarian émigré publications and contributed to The Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. In Germany, Ognyanov (often published under Christo Ognjanoff) became a member of EXIL-PEN. He was co-founder of the Petar Beron Bulgarian Academic Society (BAS “Petar Beron”), which sought to unite Bulgarian exile intellectuals. This collection is an important source of information about the Bulgarian cultural opposition in exile, their international connections and network, and their contacts with opposition groups in Bulgaria.

Location:
- R Bulgaria, 1000 Sofia, Moskovska Str. N 5
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Date of founding:
- 1997
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Hungarian Rock Museum and Hall of Fame

The Rock Museum was established in 2014 as a grassroots initiative by former musicians, experts, and collectors. The museum is the first collection in Hungary that presents documents and items of importance to the Hungarian rock and popular music scene (with an international and primarily regional focus) from the late 1950s to the present. Generally, the phenomenon of rock music under state socialism is considered a form of cultural resistance.

Location:
- 1133 Budapest Kárpát utca 23 , Hungary
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Date of founding:
- 2014
Featured items:
- Jolana Grazioso Guitar, 1958.