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Contents:
- STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
- STAT OF (GAY) LIBERATN EAST GERMANY AND WT GERMANY
- GAY LIBERATN BEHD THE IRON CURTA
- DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR GAY AND LBIAN OPPRSN EAST GERMANY
- EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY
The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy and persecuted gay men between 1933 and 1945. * gay rights east germany *
Ls than 80 years after roughly 6, 000 gay men perished Nazi ncentratn mps, Germany has bee one of the untri mostly wily acceptg of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people. That stark cultural and polil change trigued Stanford rearcher Samuel Clow Huneke, a doctoral ndidate history, who began vtigatg how East and Wt Germany alt wh homosexualy om 1945 to 1990.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
LGBT Rights Germany: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay rights east germany *
“There is an assumptn that the state of gay rights Germany today is somethg that’s mostly due to events mocratic Wt Germany, which had a more vibrant gay culture and a more visible gay rights movement durg the 1970s, ” Huneke said.
STAT OF (GAY) LIBERATN EAST GERMANY AND WT GERMANY
Samuel Clow-Huneke’s s-spanng, groundbreakg history of gay liberatn East Germany and Wt Germany challeng nventnal assumptns about dictatorships and mocraci. * gay rights east germany *
Prev historil rearch has vtigated how gay people fared Germany durg the Weimar perd, the terwar years that ran roughly om 1918 to 1933, and durg Adolf Hler’s Nazi dictatorship.
GAY LIBERATN BEHD THE IRON CURTA
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Wt Germany restated former Nazis ernment and kept the same strict Nazi-era sodomy laws, which crimalized any act perceived to be homosexual, cludg kissg and touchg.
DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR GAY AND LBIAN OPPRSN EAST GERMANY
The German ernment has pledged to do more to uphold the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) people abroad. The mment is clud s multifaceted strategy for foreign policy and velopment operatn, adopted on March 3, 2021. * gay rights east germany *
While the Wt’s activism died down after 1980, when a group of pro-pedophilia activists dispted a major gay rights event Wt Germany’s pal Bonn durg that year’s feral electn, activists the East ntued to anize, Huneke said. From 1985 until the Berl Wall fell 1989, the East German ernment released a s of pro-gay policy chang, grantg gay people the right to serve the ary, among other eedoms, acrdg to his rearch.
“This history troubl our assumptns about gay liberatn and how mori fare unr certa forms of ernment, as well as our lgerg Cold War expectatns about munist and mocratic regim, ” Huneke said.
EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power.
In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach. Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works.