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GAY BERL : BIRTHPLACE OF A MORN INTY

Xx, 305 pag: 21 cmInclus biblgraphil referenc and xThe German ventn of homosexualy -- Policg homosexualy Berl -- The first homosexual rights movement and the stggle to shape inty -- The Eulenburg sndal and the polics of outg -- Hans Blüher, the Wanrvogel movement, and the Männerbund -- Weimar sexual reform and the Instute for Sexual Science -- Sex tourism and male prostutn Weimar Berl -- Weimar polics and the stggle for legal reform.

GAY BERL

Robert Beachy, Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty, New York: Aled A. Wh medil termologi emergg that dited that same-sex affectns were hardwired, Michel Fouult famoly lled the mid-neteenth century the birth place of a morn homosexual inty that created s own ‘speci’.

1 Robert Beachy challeng Fouult on historil grounds sayg that his foc on medil disurse only allus to an ia of a ‘laboratory tt tube which medil profsnals ncted new sexual inti’ but fails to take to acunt the particular German ntext of the medilisatn of homosexualy (p. Beachy's aim is to ntextualise ‘the ventn of homosexualy and place this inty firmly wh the German i where appeared’ (p.

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Xiv) strength of Beachy's Gay Berl is that is go beyond a history of medil disurse on homosexualy the late neteenth and early twentieth centuri.

Drawg on a broad range of sourc, cludg homosexual perdils, memoirs, diari, tourist guis, rrponnc, ntemporary novels, medil (psychiatric and sexologil) lerature, he highlights the fertile terplay between scientists, the police, gay rights activists, the prs and middle and upper class homosexuals that, all together, nurtured Berl's vivid gay culture. In batn of mostly well- and sometim ls well-known paths, Gay Berl is one of the few books givg a prehensive overview of German gay history om the mid-neteenth century until the Nazi seizure of power 1933.