Queer Budapest, 1873–1961
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Table of Contents

Contents
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
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Dan Healey, University of Oxford
“With its rich readings of cultural, medical, and police records, Queer Budapest makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern queer European history. Kurimay’s vivid exploration of how political regimes of twentieth-century Hungary conceived of the queer in their midst illuminates the tangled relationship between politics and sexuality.”
Dagmar Herzog, author of Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes
“Filled with riveting subplots—from rural servants’ interpretations of aristocratic lesbianism to the brutal eugenic fantasies of Arrow Cross fascism—Kurimay’s book traces the paradoxical twists and turns in Hungarian authorities’ handling of homosexuality. Queer Budapest felicitously and brilliantly scrambles all our usual assumptions about the relationships between sexual and other kinds of politics.”
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