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Homophobia and queer belonging in Hungary
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Title / Series / Name
Focaal – European Journal of Anthropology
Publication Volume
53
Publication Issue
1
Pages
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/10570
Abstract
Violent attacks on gay and lesbian activities in the public sphere, coupled with verbal aggression against sexual minorities by right-wing politicians in Hungary and other postsocialist countries, illustrate the centrality of sexuality in questions of postsocialist transition. This article discusses the limits of current scholarly interpretations of homophobia in postsocialist countries. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on LGBT activism in Hungary, it argues that by undertak-ing public projects that assert multiple forms of identity and community, LGBT people, although often portrayed as passive objects of the changing configurations of power of Hungary’s transition, have raised a radical challenge to traditional
imaginings of the boundaries between national and transnational meanings. It is this challenge—the proposal of a “queering” of belonging—to which right-wing, nationalist actors have responded with public violence.
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Place of Publication
New York
Type
Journal article
Date
2009
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ISBN
Identifiers
10.3167/fcl.2009.530102