CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Pacziga, Monika |
|---|---|
| Title | Straight Queers? -- Transgression and AND Construction of Identities and Sexualities in Gay and Lesbian Night Spaces in Budapest |
| Summary | This thesis is about gay and lesbian clubs in Budapest; it asks if and how lesbian and gay clubs are a site of transgression and at the same time what limits they operate within and how they reinforce “notions of normality” (D. E. Hall "Queer Theories" 16). The question is whether they “queer” and to what extent the normalization processes in society. Special attention is paid to the phenomenon of non-gay or non-lesbian identified visitors frequenting these clubs; is this act deconstructing the heterosexual/homosexual binary and more broadly, is it challenging the underlying value system that classify people and behavior as “proper and improper” and “delineate ‘healthy’ normality from unhealthy abject abnormality” (Hall 13)? If there is transgression at these places, how far does that go? |
| Supervisor | Cerwonka, Allaine |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/g04pam01.pdf |
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