Queer Budapest, 1873-1961

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvAnita Kurimay

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By the dawn of the twentieth century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the "Pearl of the Danube," it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class was committed to advancing the city's liberal politics and making it an intellectual and commercial crossroads between East and West. In addition, as historian Anita Kurimay reveals, fin-de-siecle Budapest was also famous for its boisterous public sexual culture, including a robust gay subculture. Queer Budapest is the riveting story of non-normative sexualities in Hungary as they were understood, experienced, and policed between the birth of the capital as a unified metropolis in 1873 and the decriminalization of male homosexual acts in 1961. Kurimay explores how and why a series of illiberal Hungarian regimes came to tolerate, protect, and contain queer life. She also explains how the precarious coexistence between the illiberal state and queer community ended abruptly at the close of World War II. A stunning reappraisal of sexuality's political implications, Queer Budapest recuperates queer communities as an integral part of Budapest's--and Hungary's--modern incarnation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-12-14
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226705651

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HBTQ+ inom Samhälle och politik

Introduction. Sexual Politics in the “Pearl of the Danube”1. Registering Sex in Sinful Budapest2. The “Knights of Sick Love”: The Queers of Kornél Tábori and Vladimir Székely3. Rehabilitating “Sexual Abnormals” in the Hungarian Soviet Republic4. Peepholes and “Sprouts”: A Lesbian Scandal5. Unlikely Allies: Queer Men and Horthy Conservatives6. The End of a Precarious Coexistence: The Prosecution of HomosexualsEpilogue. Queers and Democracy: The Misremembering of the Queer PastAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"There is much to comment about this study: it provides nuanced analysis of discourses on and legal treatment of homosexuality and paints a vivid and empathetic portrait of queer life in Budapest across nearly a century. Moreover, it is a significant contribution to histories of urban modernity, women and gender, socialism, and conservatism in Hungary, the East Central European Region, and Europe. In addition to Queer Budapest's scholarly contributions, Kurimay's reflections on methodology and the challenges of researching sexuality in general and in Hungary specifically are invaluable for students and scholars planning to undertake historical research on sexuality. But perhaps most importantly, Kurimay provides a vital refutation of the claim that queer life has no history in Hungary."