Resum
This book offers in-depth insight into the lives of queer Roma, thus providing
rich evidence of the heterogeneity of Roma. The lived experiences of queer
Roma, which are very diverse regionally and otherwise, pose a fundamental
challenge to one-dimensional, negative misrepresentations of Roma as
homophobic and antithetical to European and Western modernity.
The book platforms Romani agency and voices in an original and novel
way. This enables the reader to feel the individuals behind the data, which
detail stories of rejection by Romani families and communities, and non-
Romani communities; and unfamiliar, ground-breaking stories of acceptance
by Romani families and communities. Combining intersectionality with queer
theory innovatively and applying it to Romani Studies, the author supports her
arguments with data illustrating how the identities of queer Roma are shaped
by antigypsyism and its intersections with homophobia and transphobia.