title: The Governmentality of Self and Others: Cases of Homosexual Clergy in the Communist Poland
abstract: Abstract In this article, I analyze the biographical sources of two priests identified as homosexuals by the Polish Security Services. I examined the sexual agency and governmentality of the clergymen in relations with security officials, the Church people, and possible sexual partners together with the clergymen’s attitude to the moral teaching of the Church. Following Michel Foucault’s lectures, I show that the discourse about homosexuality, and eventual gay acts, seemed to be their Aufklärung
journal: Open Theology