Homérosz, the first homosexual organisation in Hungary, dedicated to AIDS prevention and integration of the homosexual community into Hungarian society, was founded in 1988. The president and the representative of the organisation was Dr Lajos Romsauer, a psychiatrist and activist who had been representing homosexuality and the homosexual community in public forums.
The founding documents of the Homérosz Society stated two important issues. Given the discriminative policies of the late socialist state, the only way to establish a homosexual association was to connect the recent phenomenon of AIDS as a public health issue to homosexuality, because, according to the foundational document, homosexuals were more promiscuous than heterosexuals.
After the foundation of Homérosz, referring to the Hungarian news agency (MTI), leading western news agencies (Reuters, AFP, EFE, dpa) reported on the event and represented it as a part of the Hungarian political transition.
