Hadley Z. Renkin, Department Head and Associate Professor of the Gender Studies department, Central European University,

Interviews Hadley Z. Renkin “Silence will not protect any of us”

Hadley Z. Renkin on Hungarian sexual politics, geotemporal belonging, and the impending reemergence of fascism.

Published in the printed edition of Baltic Worlds BW 2025:4, pages 26-31
Published on balticworlds.com on December 18, 2025

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Hadley Z. Renkin, Department Head and Associate Professor of the Gender Studies department, Central European University, in conversation with Eugenia Seleznova about the roots and implications of Hungarian anti-LGBTQ+ politics, the notion of geotemporal belonging and its relation to sexuality, and the worrying, potentially far-reaching trends of anti-queer right-wing politics in Europe in connection with Trump’s politics. In early 2025, Hungary once again came into the global media spotlight with a new law banning Pride Marches and similar gatherings. While Viktor Orb.n and his government’s fierce anti-LGBTQ+ stance per se are well-known and long-standing, the roots of such politics are seldom discussed as widely as their latest manifestations. Prof. Hadley Z. Renkin has studied Hungarian sexual and gender politics, as well as local LGBTQ+ and feminist movements, since the 1990s. He explains how the current state of things came to develop and warns: Hungarian queers aren’t the only who should be concerned.

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Eugenia Seleznova

  • by Eugenia Seleznova

    Doctoral Researcher at Central European University, Vienna. Eugenia studies the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war on LGBTQ+ Ukrainians, with a focus on the spatiotemporal component of the war-inflicted injustices they are subjected to. Her research interests include queer migration, Eastern European coloniality, and queer (non)belonging.

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