The team

Dorka works in the communication and media industry, mainly online, at the creative department of a big media agency. She first dived into Hungary’s LGBTQ+ life in 2011-12 when working on organizing the EuroGames Budapest 2012. At that time she built strong connections with the Hungarian LGBTQ+  organizations and party organizers and she’s been following their works ever since.

Originally qLit was Dorka’s and Eni’s dream and so they are the founders of the magazine. Dorka coordinates the editorial staff together with Reni, and she is continuously working on laying the foundation for the long life of qLit, together with Eni and Anna.

Eni is an architect and as a co-owner of a small company she coordinates the design and construction of mainly industrial buildings. By the way she’s been playing soccer, more or less seriously, for 20 years now. She is fond of travelling, getting into photography. She was also a EuroGames organizer in 2011-12, her task was to organize and coordinate the soccer tournament with some 300 participants, and before the event she was responsible for the communication with the players from all over Europe.

Eni is also a founder of qLit. She is responsible for qLit’s image and she works a lot with authors and translators to make all our articles available in English at qLit so that more and more people can read us. Last but not least, Eni is the manager of qLit-Atlasz table tennis.

Anna, with degrees in linguistics, lives her life in the researcher-teacher-translator triangle, but lately she has also gained experience in marketing and communication. When she is not working or travelling, she plays soccer, climbs rocks, rides her bike, hikes or jumps/runs/exercises/kicks in some other way. Anna also participated in organizing EuroGames Budapest, but she has known Eni from the soccer community for a much longer time. After getting back to Hungary from Philadelphia, where she was conducting research, she started Hungary’s first LGBTQ wall painting project. We are cheering for her on that!

Her main task at qLit is project management and strategy planning. She is responsible for the teamwork on how to make qLit a long term, significant inspiration in Hungary’s L* life.

Reni studied communication and media in Targu Mures, Transylvania, then moved to Budapest.

At qLit she works at the editorial staff so that more and more articles by more and more authors could be published. They edit the drafts together until the final articles – what you can read – are ready to be published.

After finishing the university, Ibolya started off and didn’t stop until she reached Island. She’s been living there and in Germany ever since and has coordinated the social media channels of several companies and organizations. She recently went back to school to study ecotourism at Reykjavík University. She spends as much of her free-time in the nature as she can, she loves hiking and travelling.

Since joining our team, qLit’s Facebook page became much better. Besides managing our Facebook feed, Ibolya translated several articles of qLit from Hungarian to English.

Ágota moved to Budapest from a small rural town, and as she refers to it was one of the best decisions in her life. You can often see her at LGBTQ+ programs, not only as a spectator. She works in nature and environment protection, but she prefers to talk about her poems and short stories.

Ágota is the quiz master of qLit’s pub quizzes every month and also, she hosts our speed dating events.

Juci graduated as a translator and and cultural anthropologist. She used to work as a communication specialist, but currently her days are mostly about taking care of her little son. In her freetime she likes hiking, running and sometimes she even paints.

She has been volunteering for LGBTQ organisations for a long time now, that’s how she found qLit, too. She works with us as an editor with Reni in favor of offering new and exciting articles in the magazine.

Zsófi spends most of her time teaching, that’s her job, too. In her free time she writes for qLit, mainly in the Culture column. Zsófi knows the core team of qLit also from EuroGames: she feels home on the basketball court and she likes cycling. With her two cats she is the live lesbian stereotype. She likes travelling to LGBTQ+ cons abroad.

Zsófi got her degree in animation at Metropolitan University. She works as a freelance graphic designer, currently she thrives in the world of digital caricature. qLit is not the first occasion she gets in the service of an LGBTQ+ organization, she was also a volunteer at the many times mentioned EuroGames Budapest. Fun facts: cat lover (follow @csaszarzsomle instagram!) and she finished the Vienna Half Marathon in 2017.

Zsófi makes us happy with her illustrations, for example qLit’s own graphics of qLit shop are thanks to her creativity and style.

Daniella has an economist past, but after finishing her master’s degree she moved to a field promising a much more glamorous future: literature. Currently she is doing her PhD in Boston in contemporary American literature. Besides the US she has lived in other foreign countries, too, for example she stayed for a longer time in Switzerland. She likes to think and philosophize on questions of society, arts and economy (the works of Michel Foucault made her an incurable society critic). She has a special interest in experimental theater.

At qLit we can read her articles mainly in the topics of society, literature and culture.

Kriszti is working in IT support at a German company and she is an active member of the Pride employee network group there. She is learning web development, loves sci-fi and has a pumi dog.

Petra volunteered for qLit at the very first moment after launching in June 2017 and since then she is a member of the organisation. After taking photos of newborns 8 hours a day, Petra gets home to the kitchen with even more enthusiasm.

She helps a lot at our programs, you can surely see her at every qLit pub quiz and speed dating event.

Katt’s nickname comes from her photographer past. Since then she has been working on lots of stuff, for example every kind of graphic tasks from designing leaflets to html building, event organization, managing online advertisements and other online campaigns. She loves transport, huge machines and industrial buildings. She loses herself in strange light sources and concrete design objects.

Katt has diverse tasks at qLit, too. She is our photographer at events and she also helps a lot with organising our programs, too.

Dóri studied English literature and translation at University, but tried a lot of different fields since then. She worked as a tour guide, assistant director, receptionist, travel and wedding planner. She has decided to stick with translation for now, that’s how she contributes to qLit as well. She spends her weekdays in a travel agency’s customer service department, dreaming about opening a pastry shop slash animal shelter. If she could, she would adopt all the cats in the world.

Vica is studying to be a decorator. Besides visual design she adores all kinds of art: she dances, plays in theatre – but at qLit she uses another talent of hers.

At qLlit she works as a translator. She helps us a lot in making all our articles available to readers who don’t speak Hungarian – let them be foreign partners of Hungarian followers or expats (or anyone else).

Zsófi is a horticultural engineer by degree, receptionist by job description and a writer and illustrator by ambition. Resident of Budapest, district Zugló. She spends most of her free time on the net, blogging and scribbling stories of varying length. She is learning Irish and tries to keep her French and German up to par.

She puts the provess in English she got (partly) this way to use as a Hungarian-English translator for qLit.

Jennifer has been building businesses for the past 10 years. As the co-owner of an online web shop currently she is responsible for the work of 7 people. In her free time she loves reading various personality and business development books. She is fond of travelling, she mainly has Middle- and Far-Eastern regions on her bucket list.

In favour of the smooth operation of qLit she is responsible for web development, the optimization and improvement of all background processes.

By profession, Ági is a “tourist”, creative photographer: she has worked in an office, on field, abroad, at home, as a volunteer and as a hobby. She has been a fan of travelling and exploring since she was a child, so she is always on a trip, alone or in a company. She is interested in psychology and in the secrets of the Universe, just as in big talks and sports.

She got to know qLit at the table tennis sessions, and she liked it so much that she decided to join. Since then she has been in charge of uploading the translations to qLit website and updating the event calendar.

Krisztina was born and raised up on the countryside, but she already knew in her childhood that she was going to live in Budapest. She graduated as a Youth helper at Károli University, and although she works at a different field, she uses what she learned there in everyday life.

In her free time she jogs, reads and studies. She is keen on all kinds of culture; she adores those great dramas at the movies or theatres, but in her private life prefers to be easy-going and funny.

At qLit she helps in organising Friday nights’ table tennis sessions.

Dóri moved to Budapest from Pécs, she graduated as a nurse from Semmelweis University, then she cared for premature babies for 5 years. As for now, she is on a short break where she changed the hospital to an office and the incubator to a computer.

Dóri joined our team after she wrote a firm, constructive critical comment to one of our articles – an action we really like. Especially if the comment is 100% valid – as it was in this case.

Dóri helps us a lot in bringing interesting articles to our Hungarian readers and she has also shown us her talent in writing.

Zsófi works as a project manager at a multinational company where – after months of preparation – she launhed the official LGBTQ group at the beginning of 2018.

Since joining qLit team she has written some articles, translated articles from English to Hungarian and helped Eni a lot in publishing our articles in English as well.

Merci is learning linguistics at the University of Szeged. Besides that, she’s occupied with contemporary literature and theatre. In her free time she reads and tries to make others read, learns languages and kick-boxes regularly. She also volunteers at the LGBT group of Szeged, she’s helped bring multiple LGBTQ programmes into the city.

She mostly helps the work of qLit with her articles about literature, but she’s also written about feminism.