Research Interests

Tamás P. Tóth, PhD is an independent researcher, external research fellow of the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Sociology, Hungary and co-founder of Artist and Researcher in Residence Guiniguada, Gran Canaria. He earned his PhD at Eötvös Loránd University in 2014. His primary research interests are equality of opportunity, equal treatment, social exclusion/inclusion of sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+ people), homophobia, HIV/AIDS prevention, work family balance, social history of homosexuality and narrative identity. In addition to journal articles and book chapters in Hungarian, he has published in international journals such as Sexuality Research and Social Policy, AIDS Education and Prevention, AIDS, and Journal of Homosexuality. Since 2011 he is co-editor of Socio.hu Social Science Review, the journal of the ELTE CSS Institute for Sociology.

Selected Publications

P. Tóth, Tamás – Takács, Judit (2025) Egy figyelmen kívül hagyott társadalmi kisebbség: Interszex emberek társadalomtudományi megközelítésben. LEGE ARTIS MEDICINAE 35: 5-6 pp. 1–7. Paper: 6, 7 p.

Takács, Judit – P. Tóth, Tamás (2024) „A kommunista erkölcs védelmében…” – Szemelvények szexuális kihágások miatt indított pártfegyelmi ügyekből. In: Szécsényi, Mihály (szerk.) Egy underground történész: Tanulmányok Lugosi András tiszteletére. Budapest: Gondolat, 360 p. pp. 238–257, 20 p.

Takács, Judit – P. Tóth, Tamás (2023) Disintegration and social exclusion: Gay life under state-socialism in Hungary. In: Csurgó, Bernadett; Mathieu, Nicole; Megyesi, Boldizsár (szerk.) Rural society, power and social integration: Festschrift for the seventieth birthday of Imre Kovách. Budapest – Debrecen – Párizs: Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont, Debrecen University Press, Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces (LADYSS) 460 p. pp. 75–88, 14 p.

Takács, Judit – P. Tóth, Tamás (2021) Liberating Pathologization? The Historical Background of the 1961 Decriminalization of Homosexuality in Hungary. HUNGARIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW: NEW SERIES OF ACTA HISTORICA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARIUM HUNGARICAE 10: 2 pp. 267–300, 34 p.