Affiliated researchers

Martin Atanasov
Visual artist and independent researcher based in Sofia, he is interested in queer Bulgarian past.

Kata Benedek
Researcher, critic, and journalist working on LGBT cultural history in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and Poland.

Dmitry Ermalovich-Dashchynski
Independent researcher working on queer aesthetics in late-communist and post-communist cultures in Eastern Europe (esp. Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine).

Simon Garibyan
A researcher of cultural and social history of the South Caucasus, with the focus on queer literature and film in Armenia and Georgia.

Georgy Mamedov
Independent curator, writer and activist, based in Bishkek and Melbourne, whose work focuses on soviet socialism in Central Asia and broader post-soviet space.
