TY - JOUR
TI - Dziwne obrazy
AU - Szymański, Wojciech
TI - Dziwne obrazy
AB - 
	STRANGE IMAGES
	The text presents a double interpretation (homoerotic and homophobic) of a commercial image of the “renaissance youth” set in the context of the 1980s and the twilight of Communist Poland. The subversive potential of homoerotic reading of the image, on which somewhere in the late 1980s someone wrote AIDS, is presented against the background of its history. The hand-made inscription is here interpreted not only as a homophobic act but first and foremost as an operation aiming at establishing the sense of the image in such a way so that the subversion founded on homoerotic reading is cancelled and the “renaissance youth” becomes a “sick faggot.” As a result of this operation, the image starts to create the only legitimate view of homosexuality, with connotations of sickness, very similar to images of AIDS that appeared in the homophobic public discourse of the Reagan era in the USA.
	
	  

	
		
			
				 
		
	

VL - 2012
IS - Numer 2 (12) 2012
PY - 2012
SN - 1897-1962
C1 - 2084-395X
SP - 77
EP - 91
DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.12.004.0609
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/wieloglos/artykul/dziwne-obrazy
KW - AIDS
KW - PRL
KW - homoerotyzm
KW - homofobia
KW - retoryka obrazu ; AIDS
KW - PRL (The People’s Republic of Poland)
KW - homoeroticism
KW - homophobia
KW - rhetoric of the image