Wh Ko Internatnal screeng 1989 queer film "Comg Out" on Nov 9, the GDR's first (and only) feature alg wh homosexualy, our lumnist chats to Ossis to fd out more about the East Berl gay scene.
Contents:
- GAY THE GDR? THE GAY BERLER VTIGAT AHEAD OF “COMG OUT” SCREENG
- THE 10 BEST GERMANY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GERMANY
- THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
- THE BT GAY AND QUEER-IENDLY BARS AND CLUBS BERL
- LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
- GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA
- GAY GERMANY
GAY THE GDR? THE GAY BERLER VTIGAT AHEAD OF “COMG OUT” SCREENG
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What did the gay scene look like GDR Berl? But asi om Jochen Hick’s 2013 documentary Out Ost-Berl, gettg sight to the gay scene East Berl isn’t easy.
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“There were only maybe four official gay Kneipen East Berl the 1980s: Schoppenstube, Café Senefelr, Burgien and Café Prenzl.
When the untry crimalised homosexualy 1968 – renrg Germany’s famo anti-homosexualy law, Paragraph 175, els (Wt Germany didn’t repeal 175 until after rnifitn) – the GDR did seem light years ahead. But then, as the Wt was experiencg Gay Liberatn, the movement didn’t get much sway the pdish East. We uldn’t lose our jobs or apartments for beg gay, ” says Schäfer.
” Another difference is that Ossi gays were spared the trmatic experience of HIV and AIDS that was polilly mobilisg LGBT people the Wt and sparked the awakeng of the 1980s. The state self was pretty quiet regards to homosexualy.
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However, when DEFA (the state-owned film stud) fally gave the green light to the GDR’s first (and only) feature alg wh homosexualy – Heer Carow’s betiful Comg Out – premiered on the eveng of November 9, 1989 at Ko Internatnal – the same night the Berl Wall fell. Twelve years later, when the DVD release exposed ternatnal dienc to the film, Comg Out was my first troductn to gay life Germany as a whole – a ttament to not jt as a great gay film, but great film general. After the Wall me down, East Berl’s gays had a whole new world to al wh.
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Though this was not out of the ordary at the time, homosexualy was illegal the USSR om 1934 until s dissolutn 1991 and was not legalized Cha until 1997. This article will analyze the history of LGBTQ people Germany, queer culture and liberatn movements, and the state of LGBTQ people the German LGBTQ HistoryEldorado Club gay bar Berl, 1930sMany of our morn perceptns and studi of homosexualy emerged Germany the 19th century.
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The German lawyer, Karl Herich Ulrichs, is thought by some to be the world’s first openly gay man and sce 1864, began spreadg pamphlets advotg for gay rights. Ulrichs would the term “Urng, ” meang “homosexual, ” an alternative to the monly ed pejorative term “sodome. Homosexualy also began beg perceived as natural by some doctors at the time.
In 1896, the first gay magaze began publitn, Der Eigene (“The Self-Owng”), and a year later, the physician Magn Hirschfeld found the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, the first LGBTQ rights group history. While the inti had prevly been viewed as a “fetish” or as “symptom of homosexualy, ” Hirschfeld’s work differentiated genr inty om sexual orientatn and proposed a blogil foundatn.
GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA
Over a hundred gay bars and nightclubs existed for men and women and queer balls were fairly popular as well. The Friendship Paper and Women Love were some gay and lbian magaz created durg the Weimar perd. A vote to elimate Paragraph 175 om the Weimar penal , which crimalized homosexualy, managed to pass 15–13.
GAY GERMANY
Gay and lbian anizatns were banned and cshed by force if necsary. The Nazi iology saw homosexualy as “socially aberrant” and anthetil to their cult of tradn and ia of a “pure” German Reich.
Tens of thoands of gay men would be arrted the followg years.
Beg a Jewish gay man, Magn Hirschfeld had already fled the untry, leavg behd his Instute for Sexual Rearch.