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On the Queer Life of Adam Gawron in the Twentieth Century

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the queer private archive of Adam Gawron, a person born in 1899in one of the towns on the Radom–Dęblin railroad line. Gawron passed away at the ageof ninety, leaving behind a collection of photographs and family documents. In 2021,the collections were handed over to the author, who began the search to recover theprotagonist’s biography. The starting point for the research was a series of photographsand several preserved negatives depicting men kissing.The author tries to outline a map of queer archives originating from private collections:the collections of those nearest and dearest, understood more broadly than just family.At the same time, the recorded biography of the protagonist is treated as one of thevariants of a multi-faceted story, with the important role of the local community. In herbiographical investigation, the author utilizes the protagonist’s collection, war archives,and the interviews she conducted with people who remember Adam Gawron.

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