Transnational Flows of Knowledge and the Legalisation of Homosexuality in Interwar Poland

The article demonstrates how the transnational flows of sexual knowledge created a consensus among medical and legal experts for decriminalisation homosexual acts in Polish Criminal Code 1932. This happened despite absence any significant activism that would demand such reform Poland. German movement's goal to repeal notorious anti-homosexual paragraph 175 Penal was ultimately brought fruition Poland but not Germany. spread through imperial networks became useful new nation-state its search identity distinctiveness. novelty ideas German-speaking countries led consider their adoption perfect opportunity prove modernity. Additionally, an authoritarian setting after 1926 allowed decision makers shut out Church parliament from legislative process.