Straipsnyje.pdf

The article discusses the regulation of sexuality in postsocialist Lithuania, where a retradicationalization of gender and sexual norms has occurred, with ineffective partnership laws, discriminatory laws, and attempts to prohibit abortions. Neoconservative NGOs disseminate everyday sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. The article focuses on alternative intimacies and sexual practices from a bottom-up perspective, using the term "precarious" to emphasize the relation between sexual and gender norms and the distribution of vulnerability across LGBTQ+ sexualities and bodies. The author analyzes their own sociological novel, Endless Summer: A Memoir of Love and Sex, to examine how Lithuania's institutions produce unequal conditions for intimate behaviors and how vulnerable communities create possibilities of love and sex amidst the toxic political environment.