The social history of homosexuality

One of the main goals of this research is to contribute to a better understanding of the social history of homosexuality related social phenomena in Hungary, and especially the practices as well as the consequences of state surveillance on homosexuality during the 20th century – by applying historical document analyses, archive research as well as in-depth interviewing. This interdisciplinary social historical research project, combining different methods of historical and empirical social scientific analysis, is first of its kind in Hungary.