Table of Contents

Glossary

Prelude

I. Introduction. From the Organized Chaos to Queer (Self-)decolonization. Obstacles and Constructive Solutions in East Central European Queer Episteme

1. Threefold explanation of (Self-)colonization in ECE queer cultural history

1.1 Ill-fitting queer academy

1.2 The ideological epistemic hierarchies of sexual custom between the West and East of Europe

1.3 Deductive art history paradigm

Conclusion: How to Speak Spaces into the Storeyed Silence?

II. Queer Lives and Queer Cultural Representation in the Hungarian People’s Republic

II.I El Kazovszkij’s Biography
II.II Deconstructing the Imagined Censorship. Queer Matter in the Hungarian People’s Republic Kádár-era, 1956-1989/90

1. Brief Hungarian Queer Legal History and the Legislative Changes in the Hungarian People's Republic

2. Queer Cultural Representation and the Cultural State Authorities after 1961

2.1 A Quantitative Approach to Queer Cinema in the Hungarian People’s Republic, 1961-1989/90

2.1.1 Queer Movie Import to the Hungarian People’s Republic

2.1.2 Queer Movie Production of the Hungarian People's Republic

1. Queer Social Realities in the Hungarian People’s Republic after 1961

Conclusion

III. Queer Consciousness in the Hungarian People’s Republic

III.I El Kazovszkij’s Queer Intellectual Capital. Circulation of Queer Information in the Hungarian People’s Republic

1. Medical and Psy-Literature

2. Queer Cultural References

2.1 Theatre. Kassák Studio: Christmas King Kong, December 24-26, 1973

2.2 Literature

2.3 Cinema

3. Personal networks

Conclusion

III.II. Queer Camp in the Communist Camp? Two Attempts to Read Camp in the Hungarian People’s Republic

1. Deconstructive: The Application of Camp Theories to Queer Representations of the State-Socialist ECE 

1.1 The Short History of Queer Camp in the Age of Globalization

1.2. Meanwhile, in the Eastern Bloc…

1. 3 Susan Sontag and El Kazovszkij

1. Constructive: Queer and Camp, but not Queer Camp. El Kazovszkij’s (Self)Representation

2.1 Booth, Ross  ﹠ Travers: Camp Selves and Cultural Power Positions

2.2 The (In)Sincere Ambivalences of The Kazovszkij

Conclusion

III.III Building a Queer Artistic Universe in the Hungarian People’s Republic. El Kazovszkij’s Artistic Programme

1. The matter of art and the artist’s quest. From the 19th-century man to the post-modern Genius

2. The Transcending Time and Thanatos

3. The narcotic: Eros

4. The Other – About Objectification

5. Materialized Theory

Conclusion

IV. Conclusion