Queer Budapest, 1873–1961

Bibliographic Data

ID23164604
AuthorsAnita Kurimay (0000-0002-3643-2089, corresponding author)
Year2020
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueQueer Budapest, 1873–1961 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7208/chicago/9780226705828.001.0001
OpenAlexW2982480540
ISBN9780226705828
LanguageEN
Citations received12

"By the dawn of the twentieth century Budapest was on its way to becoming a cosmopolitan metropolis. The 'Pearl of the Danube' boasted some of Europe's most beguiling architectural achievements, and its growing middle class was committed to advancing the city's liberal politics, fostering its centrality as an intellectual and commercial crossroads between East and West. As historian Anita Kurimay reveals, fin-de-siècle Budapest was also famous for its boisterous public sexual culture-including a robust homosexual subculture. Queer Budapest, 1873-1961 is her riveting story of non-normative sexualities in Hungary as they were understood, experienced, and policed between the birth of the its capital as a unified metropolis in 1873 and the decriminalization of male homosexual acts in 1961. A stunning reappraisal of sexuality between East and West, Queer Budapest, 1873-1961 demolishes myths identifying queer life with the failures of late-twentieth-century liberalism and instead recuperates queer sociality as an integral part of Budapest's-and Hungary's-modern incarnation"

Art · Queer · Sociology · European history and politics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies