Samuel Clow-Huneke’s s-spanng, groundbreakg history of gay liberatn East Germany and Wt Germany challeng nventnal assumptns about dictatorships and mocraci.
Contents:
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
- STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY
- STAT OF (GAY) LIBERATN EAST GERMANY AND WT GERMANY
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy and persecuted gay men between 1933 and 1945. * homosexuality west germany *
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.
STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY
This is a sober and brisk acunt of the suatn of gay men postwar Germany, up to 1969. It acknowledg a bt to other leadg scholars of sexualy m * homosexuality west germany *
Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung). Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175.
STAT OF (GAY) LIBERATN EAST GERMANY AND WT GERMANY
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. * homosexuality west germany *
For the first time, gay men who had suffered at the hands of the Nazis beme eligible for moary pensatn om the German ernment for jtic perpetrated agast them. A few years later, May 2008, the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Nazism (Denkmal für die im Natnalsozialism verfolgten Homosexuellen) was unveiled nearby Tiergarten park central Berl.
Wh celebratns of Gay Pri takg place across Germany this July, we look at the past and the future of rights for the LGBTQ+ muny Germany. * homosexuality west 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.