Homoszexuálisok listázása a 20. századi Magyarországon
Homosexual Lists in Twentieth-Century Hungary

Summary/Abstract: Takács’s large-scale research project mapping the social history of homosexuality in the twentieth century reveals the existence of several lists of homosexual individuals compiled for official government use. Some are known from as early as the beginning of the 1900s, and there is evidence for the existence of such records in archival materials about the operation of the Budapest Municipal Police Headquarters as late as the end of the 1980s. The subject of the present study, a unique example for this type of material, is the document entitled “Conscripting Homosexual Individuals for Forced Labour,” listing the personal details of nearly a thousand gay men. The list, compiled in November and December 1942, was part of the Ministry of Defence correspondence with the State Security Centre, which was established by a joint ordinance issued by the minister of internal affairs and the minister of defence in September 1942. The documents are notable because of the scarcity of sources that provide an insight into the fate of people listed as homosexual during the Second World War. Takács’s study uses further archival sources and other documents to reconstruct the history and parctice of official Hungarian government records about homosexual individuals between the 1920s and 1980s.

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