Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty : Beachy, Robert: Books

Contents:

• GAY BERL: BIRTHPLACE OF A MORN INTY PAPERBACK – 13 OCT. 2015
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• GAY BERLIN
• GAY BERL
• THOANDS OF GAY DATG SGL IN BUCH, BERL - FD THEM
• ‘GAY BERL,’ BY ROBERT BEACHY
• GAYS GPPEN BERL
• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
• GAY BERL: LGBTIQ+ GUI FOR BERL

GAY BERL: BIRTHPLACE OF A MORN INTY PAPERBACK – 13 OCT. 2015

At the same time, Beachy enlarg our unrstandg of how the ternatnal gay-rights movement eventually prospered, spe the setbacks that experienced not only Nazi Germany but also mid-century Ameri." –Alex Ross, The New Yorker"An elucidatg, somewhat startlg study of how early German tolerance and liberalism enuraged homosexual exprsn. However, Beachy’s eply rearched, refully stctured book is foremost an imprsive piece of scholarship." –Publishers Weekly (starred)"A superb work of historil reclamatn–by far the bt acunt we have of the formative years of homosexual inty and emancipatn, is brilliantly rearched and betifully wrten." –Mart Duberman, Distguished Profsor of History Emer, CUNY --This text refers to an out of prt or unavailable edn of this tle.

• Chapter One •The German Inventn of HomosexualyWhen nsirg the qutns “What is natural?” and “What is unnatural?” is paramount to apply a standard that is not foreign to one’s own nature.karl ulrichs, “Vx: Social-­Juristic Studi of Male-­Male Love,” 1864On a bright Thursday morng late Augt 1867, the German lawyer Karl Herich Ulrichs, a former member of the civil service the kgdom of Hanover, approached the Oon ncert hall Munich. And although he failed to avert the imposn of an anti-­sodomy law throughout the newly unified German natn after 1871, his wrgs and actns helped spire the world’s first movement for homosexual rights, lnched a generatn later Berl, 1897.The tly remarkable aspect of Ulrichs’s brave iative was the important ntributn he ma to the refn—­ed the ventn—­of sexualy (and homosexualy) neteenth-­century Europe. Ulrichs’s pamphlet propaganda played a cril role this velopment: his theori of an born Urng sexualy and character upled wh his outspoken activism helped not only to fluence the cipient scienc of sexualy but also to mobilize an imaged muny of homosexuals.

Startg wh the first gay fetish parti at Bergha, many Berl clubs and bars now celebrate queer, loud & proud, such as SchwuZ, Berl's largt LGBTQ+ club. Berl liv and breath diversy every rpect: we have gathered practil rmatn, tips and pots of ntact for gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and tersexual people.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

In Schöneberg fli the flag: In 1996, Schöneberg was the first borough to officially fly the rabow flag at the town hall for the CSD gay pri para, and has done so ever sce. Wh the Lbian and Gay Street Ftival summer and Folsom Europe for leather and fetish fans September, Nollendorfplatz is a very special place to vis. Sce 1986, the "Mann-O-Meter" - Berl's gay checkpot - wh s fé and rmatn area has provid rmatn about what mov the scene and offers unplited help.

Sce 1982, there has been a memorative plaque at the Nollendorfplatz unrground statn where the Rosa Wkel memorat the persecutn and murr of homosexuals the Third Reich.

GAY BERLIN

Learn about how Berl beme a hotspot for gays and lbians over the urse of the 20th century, and how s scene attracted people om all over the world – and ntu to do so today. By 1910 there are twice as parks such as Tiergarten, public baths and a range of railway statns tradnally provid plac for many homosexual men to meet. Its founr, the publisher and anarchist Adolf Brand, acknowledg the existence of a distct homoerotic cultural history extendg om Ancient Greece through to the prent.

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A number of lbian women, cludg Johanna Elberskirchen and Toni Schwabe, take a pro-active stance and fight to bee actively volved the gay movement, argug favour of havg their say Magn Hirschfeld's Scientific-Humanarian Commtee. Magaz for gays and lbians are available at public ksks and the venu: they clu Die Frndschaft (Friendship), the Blätter für Menschenrecht (Magaze for Human Rights), Die Frnd (The Girliends), Frenliebe (Women's Love), and Das drte Gchlecht (The Third Sex) for transvt and transsexuals. This means that the Berl Police Headquarters at Alexanrplatz remas a credible threat of force spe s policy of tolerance towards the gay and lbian scene.

There are now around 80 venu for gays and lbians Berl: beer-soaked div and distilleri, bourgeois rtrants, we bars and clubho, dance halls and dance palac, ballrooms and smopolan night-time bars. Numero hotels and gut ho, bety and hairdrsg salons, tailors and photo studs, doctors and lawyers private practice, librari, cigarette and shoe shops, and even a r rental pany, a travel agency and a distributor for potency pills advertise gay and lbian magaz.

The owners of the all-night bar for lbians, Mai & Igel, are also affected by the forced closur, while the rnival stume balls for gays and lbians held at the In n Zelten amement strip Berl's Tiergarten, which were also hugely popular among heterosexuals, are banned wh immediate effect. Risg om the ash and fyg the post-war stery, gays and lbians re-emerge, holdg their first balls aga the midst of the bble of the stroyed cy om 1946 onwards. Many men once aga bee the victim of state prosecutn unr the law agast homosexuals, a Nazi law that remas on the books and has sce been tightened.

THOANDS OF GAY DATG SGL IN BUCH, BERL - FD THEM

When the Berl Wall is built 1961, the divid cy of Berl los s leadg role, and s appeal, as the cy of eedom for gays and lbians for a to e. Rosa von Prnheim's film, It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society Which He Liv (1971) spir the gay scene to tablish new associatns.

Homosexuelle Aktn Wtberl is found Berl 1971, om which the femist awakeng emerg 1975 wh the foundg of the Lbian Aktnszentm – along wh the lbian archive Spnbon as an iative for the disvery, and prervatn, of female love. One year later, the transvte Charlotte von Mahlsdorf opens a venue for gays and lbians that will later bee legendary her mm dited to artefacts om the late 19th century. Choirs, sports associatns and hikg groups add diversy and vibrancy to the scene Aids-Hilfe is formed 1985, and benefs om wispread support and be a new actor the gay movement.

‘GAY BERL,’ BY ROBERT BEACHY

In September 2017, a monument to the world's first gay and lbian emancipatn movement, which was iated by the gay and lbian associatn, is unveiled on Magn-Hirschfeld-Ufer, behd the Feral Chancellery.

It is a symbol of the diversy of sexualy and genr, and a metaphor for a nfint, flourishg scene – a landspe that was first nceived of, put to the tt, and ma possible the 1920s – when Berl was a role mol for an ternatnal gay and lbian pal which all queer people uld fd a haven and refuge. On 1 October 2017 – a Sunday – the first gay and lbian upl marry Germany, cludg Volker Beck, a polician for the Green party, who marri his spoe Berl-Krzberg after a long fight to be able to say “I do”.

It is said that there were more than 100 venu for homosexuals at that time, rangg om the famo Eldorado to the ladi dance hall Zur Manuela through to the large balls anised by var homosexual associatns. As early as 1897, Magn Hirschfeld found the Wissenschaftlich-Humanäre Komee (The Scientific-Humanarian Commtee) Berl, as the first ever gay and lbian human rights anisatn. From 1919, he ran the legendary Instut für Sexualwissenschaft (Instute for Sexual Science), which ma an important ntributn to the emancipatn of gays and lbians all over the world.

GAYS GPPEN BERL

After the supprsn of the entire gay and lbian muny and subculture by the Nazis, wasn’t until 1971 that the homosexual scene revered aga – which is when the gay movement Homosexuelle Aktn Wtberl (Homosexual Actn Wt Berl) was found. The muny got a whole new lease of life wh the foundg of the Berler Lbenwoche (Berl Lbian Week) and the olst and largt gay and lbian cy magaze Siegsäule 1984. Sce 1993, the gay/lbian cy ftival has been celebrated every year – is the largt of s kd worldwi and ensur to this day that Berl is home to the most diverse, vibrant and popular gay/lbian scen Europe.

LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS

The days, up to 750, 000 people celebrate the CSD Berl the streets of the cy – no matter whether you are gay, lbian, bisexual, heterosexual, transgenr or another sexual orientatn.

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

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. Hundreds and hundreds of great gay guys are g Hwe to make the perfect nnectns – hookups, dat, iendships, or that perfect one for a lifetime.

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. 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.

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: LGBTIQ+ GUI FOR BERL

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. 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. Berl was the homosexual pal of the globe, a town scribed by Thomas Mann’s gay son Kls, tongue--cheek, as “Sodom and Gomorrah a Pssian tempo.