Rainbow Europe:Polish LGBTQs in the UK readily identify as European

Europe has recently become closely associated with LGBTQ rights. It remains unclear, however, what the role of this association is in everyday European imaginations and identifications. Łukasz Szulc draws on 30 interviews with LGBTQ individuals who moved from Poland to the UK to demonstrate that they view Europe as ‘diverse’, ‘open’ and ‘tolerant’. He also explains that they attribute those characteristics exclusively to Western Europe.