Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
Preface 9
Abstract 11
Prologue 13
Acknowledgements 16
0.1 Methods of Research and Theoretical Frameworks 22
0.2 Literature Review 40
0.3 Pride Parade as a Site of Contradictions. Europeanisation, LGBT and Queer Activism, and Leftist Demands from Within 42
0.4 Structure of the PhD Dissertation 46
1.1 Feminist and Queer Backgrounds—Dissident Currents—Debates on Intersectionality: Decolonial Feminism and Decolonial Queer 56
1.2 Gender and Political Difference: The Histories of Art and Activism in the Yugoslavian Cultural Space 69
1.3 Anti-War Agency: Feminists, Lesbians, Gays, Artists and Others 81
1.4 Translating Queer: QueerBeograd and the Discourse of Kvar 86
2.1 QueerBeograd Cabaret—"Preparing the Space" 96
2.2 "Queercore/Lubricant" Cabaret (2006) 98
2.3 QueerBeograd Cabaret (2007) 121
2.4 QueerBeograd Cabaret "Direcktno" (2008) 133
3.1 Weimar Cabaret and the Politics of Anti-Fascism 164
3.2 Transnational Radical Queer Activism and Contemporary Queer Cabaret Culture 176
3.3 No Borders Politics 179
3.4 QueerBeograd: A Hybridising and Situating Cabaret 186
4.1 Creating the QueerBeograd Festival Time and Space 202
4.2 Kvar as a Procedure of Organising 207
4.3 The Method of QueerBeograd Cabaret 214
4.4 Positions of Enunciation and Subject Matters 227
5.1 Advancing Intersectionality 250
5.2 QueerBeograd and Pride 254
5.3 Festivals and Alternative Political Culture 258
Bibliography 265