Caging and Uncaging Pride

Di(s)visibility and the Borders of Budapest Pride

Bibliographic Data

ID2143331
AuthorsHadley Z Renkin (0000-0001-9407-4438, Central European University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume90
Issue4
Pages1-16
Publication date2024-05-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00141844.2024.2349656
OpenAlexW4398138051
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited44

In 2008, following right-wing attacks in 2007, Budapest's Pride march was 'caged' by a cordon of police barricades which remained until repudiated by march organisers in 2017. Both caging and uncaging resulted in fundamental transformations of the march, its spectacle of identity, politics, and belonging, and the meanings of Hungarian sexual politics. Grounded in ethnographic research from 1999 to the present, this paper explores the implications of these transformations for Budapest Pride's layered visibilities and invisibilities, and their borders of desire, being, politics, and belonging. Weaving together queer concepts of 'disidentification', anthropological thinking on 'friction', and postsocialist analysis of queer 'in/visibility', I argue that that Budapest Pride's shifting caged and uncaged state renders it a critical site of 'di(s)visibility': contingent frictions, simultaneously productive and destructive, between queer and other visibilities and invisibilities, whose ambiguous, ambivalent relations both crystallise and dissolve multiple borders of identity, politics, and belonging

Aesthetics · Art · Geography · Meteorology · Political science · Pride · Visibility · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture