Description
The objective is to reveal personal stories of the recent past that have not yet been told publicly; to help the LGBT community and majoritarian society process them and construct dialogue. A large part of these stories is exactly an account of the clashes with and fear from the world outside the closet. Up to today this oppression impacts not only the victims but also the perpetrator or indifferent majority. Beyond the Hungarian LGBT community, our project’s target group is the majoritarian society. We record, edit, and publish 12 video interviews on the project’s blog and social media sites, then archive them. Furthermore, we publish 500 copies of a photo-anthology of interviews, which will be presented in the capital and in five cities in the countryside, in conjunction with personal and organizational meetings within the LGBT community. The end of this project is also the start of encouraging elder gay people to tell their stories and share their experiences.
Summary of project results
The objective was to reveal personal stories of the recent past that have not yet been told publicly; to help the LGBT community and major society to process them and to construct a lackingdialogue and to bring together the older and younger LGBT people. Beyond the Hungarian LGBT community, the project’s target group is majority society. The project promoter recorded, edited, and published video interviews on the project’s blog and social media sites then archived them for further research possibilities publicly available. They also published 500 copies of a photo anthology of interviews which was presented two times in the capital and six cities in the country side, in conjunction with personal and organizational meetings within the LGBT community. This way the more hidden rural LGBT communities were discovered and involved, further collaboration is planned with them. In the future the project also plans to reach out to Central Eastern European countries, to add subtitles in regional languages to the interviews and to showcase a film in the region. 25 years after the regime change this project was a big communication step forward between generations, between the LGBT community and majority society. As for the strongest impact the younger LGBT generation got to know about the older LGBTQ people's challenges in the old regime, the project set stable relationships between them, the books have reached a wide public, e.g. the book kept the 2nd position for weeks on the selling list of a central bookstore and will also be available in public libraries all over the country. The blog had an unexpected success and great reach out, as well.
Summary of bilateral results