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Contents:

• REVIEW: A PERSECUTED GAY MAN FDS TE LIBERATN BETIFULLY BTERSWEET ‘GREAT FREEDOM’
• ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ PROVIS A RAW, UNPROMISG LOOK AT THE PERSECUTN OF GAY MEN EAST GERMANY
• DON’T OVERLOOK ATRIA’S GAY PRISON DRAMA ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ THE INTERNATNAL OSR RACE
• DON’T OVERLOOK ATRIA’S GAY PRISON DRAMA ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ THE INTERNATNAL OSR RACE
• WHO IS FRANZ GAYL, THE PENTAGON WORKER TAKG HEAT FOR OP-EDS CHE STATE MEDIA?
• ANTEL, FRANZ, 1913-2007. OTTO IST F FREN SCHARF, ALSO KNOWN AS OTTO, THE GAY LOTHAR. ATRIA, GERMANY (WT), 1968., 1968.
• 10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
• MEET STT FRANTZ, AN OPENLY GAY NFL DRAFT PROSPECT WH A CHANCE TO MAKE HISTORY
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS FRANZ JOSEF

REVIEW: A PERSECUTED GAY MAN FDS TE LIBERATN BETIFULLY BTERSWEET ‘GREAT FREEDOM’

But was bee he was gay?

‘GREAT FREEDOM’ PROVIS A RAW, UNPROMISG LOOK AT THE PERSECUTN OF GAY MEN EAST GERMANY

That Kafka was gay is speculative but not implsible.

Atrian filmmaker Sebastian Meise’s tickg clock of a drama — regrettably missg om the Osr nome this year for ternatnal feature — crisscross the repeated imprisonments of a gay German man played by Franz Rogowski between the end of World War II and the emergence of a new gay outspokenns the late ’60s. In that span of time, to be homosexual was to still feel shackled to the persecutn nightmare of Hler’s reign, bee while the German penal provisn that jailed gay men — Paragraph 175 — was passed 1871, and saw s most btal prosecutn durg the Nazi years, stayed on the books for s after the ’s 1968 when we meet Hans (Rogowski), who looks unfazed at beg tried and sentenced for havg sex wh men. When his cell door is opened to reveal an Amerin soldier, we learn that Hans is not gog ee, however, but rather beg sent to a jail to serve out the rt of his Paragraph 175 shockg realy for gay men om the mps — that the Allied liberatn did not clu them — is what spurred Meise and -screenwrer Thomas Reir to wre “Great Freedom.

One of the film’s arcs is how he slowly breaks down Viktor’s homophobia over the years — a gentle mpaign of rg that go back to their meetg as cellmat 1945 and that Friedrich’s portrayal match steels and vulnerabily. Homosexual partnerships, transgenr issu and diversy mt be re-evaluated on the basis of new unrstandgs of sexualy, Timmerevers wrote the book, published this week. He ntued: "The life experienc and ep feelgs of those who are homosexual or transgenr have touched me very eply.

DON’T OVERLOOK ATRIA’S GAY PRISON DRAMA ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ THE INTERNATNAL OSR RACE

In dog so, Overbeck said, the pope had exprsed "a new form of appreciatn that n be the startg pot for a (lol church) re-evaluatn of homosexualy. " However, this velopment ran unter to the rejectn of blsgs for gay partnershipsissued by the Vatin's Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, Overbeck add.

Acrdg to current Catholic teachg, is not a s to have homosexual feelgs but sexual acts between people of the same genr are "trsilly disorred" and "ntrary to the natural law. In the book, lbian, gay, same-sex, bisexual, trans, ter, non-bary and other queer people scribe their experienc wh fah and the church.

DON’T OVERLOOK ATRIA’S GAY PRISON DRAMA ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ THE INTERNATNAL OSR RACE

Great Freedom tak s tle om the name of a nightclub that Hans Hoffmann (Trans’s Franz Rogowski) attends 1969 at the ncln of Sebastian Meise’s wrenchg drama (out now theaters)—an tablishment of unhibed homosexualy, now that Germany’s anti-gay Paragraph 175 statute has been relaxed. Rogowski’s turn is marvelo for beg so iled and yet so munitive, and no matter Hans’ persecutn and monizatn—cludg om fellow mat who object to his homosexualy—he rri himself wh unflappable nfince.

WHO IS FRANZ GAYL, THE PENTAGON WORKER TAKG HEAT FOR OP-EDS CHE STATE MEDIA?

A recent rint of a Nazi ncentratn mp, Hans has trad one tentn center for another, and he’s immediately placed a cell wh Viktor, who’s disgted at havg to share space wh a homosexual man. In many s, LGBTQ+ ncentratn mp mat were simply transferred to prison ’s the most human sndal explored director Sebastian Meise’s Cann Un Certa Regard wner: Germany’s Paragraph 175, a provisn of a German crimal that reigned om 1871 to (shockgly) early 1994, crimalizg all homosexual acts between men. The story is told through the ey and heavy, wearied soul of the fictnal Hans Hoffmann, who is repeatedly imprisoned over s post-World War II Germany for beg gay.

IndieWire: What was your knowledge of Paragraph 175, terms of the crimalizatn of homosexualy Germany? We me across the reports of gay men who were liberated om ncentratn mps and directly put to prison by the Alli, or put to prisons to serve their remag sentenc.

We read that — was an article some book about beg gay Hamburg — and I uldn’t really believe .

ANTEL, FRANZ, 1913-2007. OTTO IST F FREN SCHARF, ALSO KNOWN AS OTTO, THE GAY LOTHAR. ATRIA, GERMANY (WT), 1968., 1968.

We talked about this wh a younger generatn of gay people; they also had no knowledge. There’s a gay mm Berl, the Archive of the Memory. What we did Vienna, there’s an old gay fé, and there’s always some olr gay upl stg the back.

It was such a taboo for them bee Atria and Germany, the state never acknowledged the fact that [beg gay] had been a this wasn’t abolished until the mid-1990s, what do you feel is the posn toward the Paragraph is Germany now?

10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS

Mare and Pentagon whistleblower has had his secury clearance spend and is the target of an Amerin untertelligence vtigatn after he penned two op-eds Che state-n media Mare Corps nfirmed to the Washgton Post Friday that Franz Gayl, a 64-year-old retired major who served Iraq, is part of an "on-gog vtigatn" after he wrote two Global Tim opn was the reported whistleblower behd a May 2007 Wired magaze piece entled, "Milary Dragged Feet on Bomb-Proof Vehicl, " which sparked ntroversy and ngrsnal heargs at the time.

MEET STT FRANTZ, AN OPENLY GAY NFL DRAFT PROSPECT WH A CHANCE TO MAKE HISTORY

Then-Delaware Democratic Senator Joe Bin praised Gayl 2007 for his whistleblower efforts. Gayl has sce worked as a science adviser to the Mare Corps and recently returned om Iraq after helpg the U.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS FRANZ JOSEF

""I knew would get everybody's attentn, and man, did , " Gayl told The Washgton Post on Friday after nservative U. Outlets as well as Beijg state-n media promoted his two opn April 27 op-ed by Gayl was published by the Che state-n outlet Global Tim and featured the headle, "Why the U. If the US elects to fight Cha over the island of Taiwan, then will lose, " Gayl wrote.