Synopsis
7 protagonists’ life stories show what it meant to be a gay man before the political „transition” in Hungary. Personal experiences uncovered and secret service files excavated reinterpret the past 50 years. It is also exciting, how the young gay guys, the researchers in the film, discuss what they hear through their personal experiences and social conventions. While the country of the former “gayest barracks” used to stand for Paradise in the eyes of other Eastern European gays, Hungary’s latest round of legislation has resulted in a step backwards. Legitimizing public homophobic speech in both politics and public sphere is a very bad message. It is the 50-plus generation of gay men who take the lead: intellectuals, artists navigate through the “thin air” of the 1950s then the detente-like milieu of the 60s-80s, some of whom became activists later on, the founders of the Hungarian gay community.
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