| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Queer meeting places in Budapest. Map locations -- Introduction. Sexual Politics in the "Pearl of the Danube" -- 1. Registering Sex in Sinful Budapest -- 2. The "Knights of Sick Love": The Queers of Kornél Tábori and Vladimir Székely -- 3. Rehabilitating "Sexual Abnormals" in the Hungarian Soviet Republic -- 4. Peepholes and "Sprouts": A Lesbian Scandal -- 5. Unlikely Allies: Queer Men and Horthy Conservatives -- 6. The End of a Precarious Coexistence: The Prosecution of Homosexuals -- Epilogue. Queers and Democracy: The Misremembering of the Queer Past -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
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-siècle Budapest was also famous for its boisterous public sexual culture, including a robust gay subculture. Queer Budapest is the riveting story of nonnormative 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 regulate but also tolerate and protect 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 Hungary's--and Europe's--modern incarnation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 28, 2020) |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- Hungary -- Budapest -- History -- 19th century
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Homosexuality -- Hungary -- Budapest -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- General.
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Homosexuality
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Manners and customs
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Budapest (Hungary) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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Budapest (Hungary) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
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| Subject |
Hungary -- Budapest
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226705828 |
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022670582X |
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