Organized by the FREE University, Lady Dömper visits the Central European University in Budapest to talk about her past and present as a transvestite, as well as her opinion of Hungary. This is not the first time that a transvestite gives a lecture in a Hungarian educational institution. Just as it is no coincidence that Zoltán Petróczi is giving his lecture at the Central European University.

Zoltán Petróczi (stage name Lady Dömper), "one of the most entertaining and unique transvestite performers in Hungary", will visit the Central European University (CEU) building on January 26, organized by the FREE University. He talks about his life, his past and present as a transvestite, and we can also get to know his "bitter" opinion about the Hungary of 2023 - read the theater's online program guide.

Lady Dömper has been working at night as a transvestite comedian for thirty years, roughly since the regime change.

"He makes the Alterego Club explode every weekend at midnight, along with the conservative citizens - that is, the latter would only explode if they heard Dömper's weekly private number."

The bravest can ask at the end, the aunt won't bite!

It is no coincidence that Petróczi is giving his lecture at the CEU. On the first of February last year, he issued a statement about the operation of the CEU in Budapest. The institution, which for years we read that it was expelled from Hungary, listed itself how many and what kind of diverse activities they carry out in Budapest. This includes, among other things, that the university

"it provides housing for students who have left the dormitory of the former University of Theater and Film, and classrooms for the educational activities of FreeSZFE, which has become stateless".

Although the Central European University, i.e. CEU, is currently headquartered in Vienna, it also runs training courses in Budapest, the same place where the center was before moving to Vienna. Many members of the Hungarian feminist and LGBTQ movement studied at the university's gender department, which operated in Budapest for a long time. The course is still taught today by several Hungarian instructors. According to the website of the CEU institute, in addition to specialized foundational subjects, they teach subjects such as Feminist economies, Gender and war, Decolonization of gender studies, Feminism and masculinity. Then: Gender, memory and nationalism, Gender, sexuality and Non/Human, Genocide and Holocaust studies from a gender perspective, Postcolonialism and feminism, and there is also a course on critical race theory. Previously, in the 2019/2020 academic year, even Critical Animal Studies was a class that could be taken in the CEU gender major.

It is important to note that this is not the first time that a transvestite gives a lecture in a Hungarian educational institution. Our paper previously found out: the Budaörs Illyés Gyula High School, Vocational High School and Technikum organized sensitization programs, in addition to the best-known LGBTQ organizations, a transvestite gave a lecture to the students of the high school. Krisztián Géczy, deputy mayor of Törökbálint - one of whose children is also a student at the Illyés high school - said at the time:

the transvestite told her life story and thoughts to the students of the institution.

However, since the gymnasium also has a six-grade section, the lectures were not only for older children, but also for 13-year-old children. The deputy mayor indicated that although the sensitization days were covertly announced on the institution's Facebook page, no one informed the parents that such an event would take place at the high school.

Source and full article: Magyar Nemzet

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