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• GAY BERL : BIRTHPLACE OF A MORN INTY
• ROBERT BEACHY: GAY BERL. BIRTHPLACE OF A MORN INTY
• GAY BERL: BIRTHPLACE OF A MORN INTY PDF
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• ‘GAY BERL,’ BY ROBERT BEACHY
• GAY BERL: BIRTHPLACE OF A MORN INTY
• GAY BERL
• ‘GAY BERL: BIRTHPLACE OF A MORN INTY’ BY ROBERT BEACHY
• GAY BERLIN

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. 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.

ROBERT BEACHY: GAY BERL. BIRTHPLACE OF A MORN INTY

Beachy's aim is to ntextualise ‘the ventn of homosexualy and place this inty firmly wh the German i where appeared’ (p. 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. An unprecented examatn of the ways which the unhibed urban sexualy, sexual experimentatn, and medil advanc of pre-Weimar Berl created and mold our morn unrstandg of sexual orientatn and gay inty. From Karl Herich Ulrichs, a German activist scribed by some as the first openly gay man, to the world of Berl’s vast homosexual subcultur, to a major sex sndal that enraptured the daily newspapers and shook the urt of Emperor William II—and on through some of the very first sex reassignment surgeri—Robert Beachy unvers the long-fotten events and characters that ntue to shape and fluence the way we thk of sexualy today.

Details Product: Wner of Randy Shilts AwardIn the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berl beme the undisputed gay pal of the world. Activists and medil profsnals ma a cy of firsts—the first gay journal, the first homosexual rights anizatn, the first Instute for Sexual Science, the first sex reassignment surgeri—explorg and tg themselv and the rt of the world about new ways of unrstandg the human ndn.

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Unr the Reich, homosexual men were subjected to persecutn, emed nt misfs who uld be “cured” only by harsh “tn. Thoands of them Beachy’s excellent and richly documented new book, “Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty, ” merely touch on the horrors. Instead, he tak the rear to the other end of the spectm of opn — that homosexualy is and has always been a sexual orientatn fixed om birth, that same-sex love is as normal as heterosexualy, a ndn not amenable to treatment but rather an endowment of nature that should be rpected as part of a person’s ls important, Beachy, an associate profsor of history at Unrwood Internatnal College at Yonsei Universy Seoul, South Korea, lot the origs of this view of human sexualy Germany the mid-19th century, a culture that also produced morn scientific sexologil rearch.

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His book refully evaluat the arguments of a number of dividuals this perd who wrote about the subject and agated for the aboln of the wispread legal discrimatns of the elsewhere Europe, the enforcement of anti-gay laws was an issue, and here the book ntas a surprise. While other German ci pursued stricter polici, was Pssian Berl, unr a police missner named Leopold von Meerscheidt-Hüllsem, that more liberal polici were adopted, a velopment that occurred after unrver officers nclud that private clubs and bars for homosexuals were peaceful tablishments and did not nstute a public threat or nuisance. Consequently, pre-1914 Berl veloped a flourishg subculture which homosexuals ngregated whout fear of arrt.

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Activists anized popular assembli, often workg-class districts, that attracted up to a thoand cur listeners, evintly keen to learn ’s study ntas a fascatg chapter on pre-1914 “outg” sndals, the most notor of which ultimately led to the nvictn of one of the emperor’s clost iends, Philipp Prce zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld, though not for illic homosexualy.

GAY BERL: BIRTHPLACE OF A MORN INTY

Rather, Eulenburg was found to have perjured himself durg an acrimon libel su when he nied his homosexualy. Another tertg chapter, which foc on the homoerotic and homosexual bondg of adolcents the Wanrvogel youth movement, clus an analysis of the wrgs of Hans Blüher, one of s lears. Some genr reassignment operatns were also attempted, but had to be abandoned as too risky and signifince of Beachy’s book go beyond his fdgs on the German roots of the ncln that homosexualy is a blogilly fixed tra.

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Given the extremism of the Nazi solutn to human difference, took the Germans que a long time after 1945 to reach the sort of openns and tolerance that had existed “Gay Berl” before 1914. 2 about “Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty, ” by the history profsor Robert Beachy, clud outdated rmatn about the thor. By the turn of the neteenth-century, Weimar Republic Berl was dotted wh street-si booths circulatg gay activist lerature, nights l wh banquets hostg drag balls, and 1919, saw the tablishment of German-Jewish physician Magn Hirschfeld’s Instute of Sexualy.

Acrdg to Profsor Robert Beachy, thor of Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty, liberal policg, a relatively ee prs, and a burgeong art and culture scene attributed to the potential possibili of openly gay muni early-twentieth century Berl.

‘GAY BERL: BIRTHPLACE OF A MORN INTY’ BY ROBERT BEACHY

Yet, ls than a after the Weimar began, many dividuals volved this early gay liberatn movement, cludg Magn Hirschfeld –born a German-Jew– began to feel the prsur of the rise of the Nazi party. As dited by the passage om the book above, homophobia always remaed a nstant threat to progrs for civil rights activists Weimar Germany and quickly worsened as the Nazis began to take power. Collage on the closg of gay and lbian bars Berl, om Vienna newspaper Der Notschrei (The Cry for Help), March 4, 1933.

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At the end of the exhibn’s first floor is the story of The Pk Triangle – a symbol ed to marte dividuals ncentratn mps who were imprisoned for their homosexualy. In the ncentratn mps the homosexuals were intified as a special group of prisoners, marked as such, and treated wh special severy.