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• HE TRAVEL – GAY TRAVEL TOURS, GAY ADVENTURE TRAVEL, ACTIVE VATNS
• THE LTLE MERMAID'S ORIGAL STORY IS REALLY ABOUT GAY LOVE AND REJECTN
• "MARCEL" HAS BEEN A GAY P-UP FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS
• GAY ANGLINS THE ACNA
• ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ AND THE LONG SHADOW OF AN ANTI-GAY LAW GERMANY
• ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ PROVIS A RAW, UNPROMISG LOOK AT THE PERSECUTN OF GAY MEN EAST GERMANYLOVE IS LOVEFILMMAKER SEBASTIAN MEISE’S LATT IS A GUT-WRENCHG DRAMA ABOUT GERMANY’S HISTORIL CELTY AGAST GAY MEN, LED BY AN OUTSTANDG TURN OM ACTOR FRANZ ROGOWKSI. NICK SCHAGERENTERTAMENT CRICUPDATED MAR. 05, 2022 4:18AM EST CANN FILM FTIVAL/FREIBTERFILM_ROHFILMGREAT FREEDOM TAK S TLE OM THE NAME OF A NIGHTCLUB THAT HANS HOFFMANN (TRANS’S FRANZ ROGOWSKI) ATTENDS 1969 AT THE NCLN OF SEBASTIAN MEISE’S WRENCHG DRAMA (OUT NOW THEATERS)—AN TABLISHMENT OF UNHIBED HOMOSEXUALY, NOW THAT GERMANY’S ANTI-GAY PARAGRAPH 175 STATUTE HAS BEEN RELAXED. NOHELS, TE EEDOM IS A TRICKY AND PLITED MODY THE DIRECTOR’S LONG-AWAED FOLLOW-UP TO 2011’S STILL LIFE, PECIALLY FOR HANS, WHO’S REPEATEDLY RCERATED OVER S UNR THE AFOREMENTNED LAW FOR THE CRIME OF WANTG TO BE WH OTHER MEN. A PORTRA OF LIBERATN FLOURISHG UNEXPECTED PLAC, PULS WH QUIET ANGUISH, LONGG AND FIANCE, LED BY A ROGOWSKI PERFORMANCE THAT NVEYS ASTONISHG PTHS MIMALIST GTUR.HANS IS TRODUCED AN OPENG MONTAGE OF 16MM FILM CLIPS SHOT OM BEHD A TTAGE’S BATHROOM SK MIRROR; EACH SNIPPET, HE ENGAG A SEXUAL ACT WH A STRANGER, TH MAKG CLEAR HIS PROCLIVI. THIS SURREPTLY RERD MATERIAL IS EVINCE A 1968 URT SE AGAST HIM, WHICH ENDS WH A SWIFT NVICTN AND A SENTENCE OF 24 MONTHS. IN EAST GERMANY, PARAGRAPH 175 OUTLAWS SUCH BEHAVR, AND HANS IS SENT OFF TO PRISON, WHERE HE GO THROUGH AN ADMTANCE PROCS LIKE A SEASONED PRO. JT AS THE THORI’ MERA STARED AT HIM WHILE HE PLEASURED HIS PARAMOURS, SO TOO DO GUARDS NOW STAND BY AND WATCH AS HANS STRIPS OUT OF HIS CLOTH AND SPREADS HIMSELF FOR SPECTN, UNRLG HOW SOCIETY SYSTEMATILLY GAZ AT HIM (OFTEN THE NU, AS WHEN HE’S LATER THROWN TO SOLARY NFEMENT), AND DAMNS HIM FOR WHAT SE. HANS OPERAT A SEWG MACHE THE LNDRY ROOM, AND ’S THERE THAT HE NOTIC LEO (ANTON VON LUCKE), ONE OF THE MEN WH WHOM HE’D PREVLY SHARED SOME BATHROOM-STALL TIMACY AT THE TTAGE. THOUGH HANS MAY BE THE OBJECT OF EVERYONE ELSE’S NMNATORY SCTY, HE’S A MAN WHOSE OWN EY ARE TENSELY GEY AND NFINT, SENDG D MSAG THROUGH SMALL, SLY LOOKS AND LIKEMD EXPRSNS, SUCH AS THE SE THAT SOMETIM CREEPS, ALMOST IMPERCEPTIBLY, TO THE RNER OF HIS MOUTH. ROGOWSKI’S TURN IS MARVELO FOR BEG SO ILED AND YET SO MUNITIVE, AND NO MATTER HANS’ PERSECUTN AND MONIZATN—CLUDG OM FELLOW MAT WHO OBJECT TO HIS HOMOSEXUALY—HE RRI HIMSELF WH UNFLAPPABLE NFINCE. HE’S A MAN WHO KNOWS WHO HE IS, WHAT HE WANTS, AND HOW HE N GET , EVEN A PLACE WHERE THE NCRETE WALLS AND HUMORLS GUARDS ARE TERMED TO KEEP HIM ALONE AND ALIENATED OM ANY SPARK OF JOY.THOUGH HANS HAS EY FOR LEO—A TIMID TEACHER WHO’S SPENDG HIS FIRST STT BEHD BARS, AND WHO ULTIMATELY FDS HANS A RELIABLE PROTECTOR AND PARTNER—HIS LASTG RELATNSHIP IS WH VIKTOR KOHL (GE FRIEDRICH), WHO 1968 IS A JUNKIE ON THE VERGE OF A NEW PAROLE HEARG. HANS AND VIKTOR’S NNECTN IS THE NARRATIVE THROUGH-LE OF GREAT FREEDOM, WHICH SOON LEAPS BACKWARD TIME TO 1945 TO WNS HANS FIRST ENTERG THE SAME PRISON AS A MTACHE-EE YOUNGER MAN. A RECENT RINT OF A NAZI NCENTRATN MP, HANS HAS TRAD ONE TENTN CENTER FOR ANOTHER, AND HE’S IMMEDIATELY PLACED A CELL WH VIKTOR, WHO’S DISGTED AT HAVG TO SHARE SPACE WH A HOMOSEXUAL MAN. NEVERTHELS, UPON HEARG ABOUT HANS’ WWII ORAL, HE OFFERS TO TATTOO SOMETHG OVER THE PERMANENT INTIFITN NUMBERS LG HANS’ FOREARM, THEREBY IATG A BOND THAT WILL VELOP OVER THE ENSUG YEARS. BETWEEN VIKTOR’S TATTOO NEEDLE PIERCG HANS’ SK, HANS’ STRAW POKG HOL A BIBLE ORR TO TRANSM A SECRET MSAGE TO A LOVER, THE CIGARETTE THAT’S PERPETUALLY BETWEEN HANS’ LIPS, A STIRRG PAT BSH, AND A MAN BLOWG FURLY TO A SAXOPHONE, PHALLIC AND SEXUALIZED IMAGERY ABOUNDS GREAT FREEDOM, ALBE WH A SUBTLETY THAT’S ENMIC TO THE PROCEEDGS. MEISE OFTEN LEANS HEAVILY ON SILENCE AND LAMENTG TMPET TO ADD WEIGHT AND SORROW TO HIS DRAMA, AS WELL AS OPPRSIVE DARKNS THAT AT TIM SEEMS TENT ON SWALLOWG HANS WHOLE. IN SUCH A BLEAK ENVIRONMENT, HANS’ MATCH PROVI THE ONLY FLICKER OF LIGHT—AN UNRSTATED VISUAL METAPHOR FOR HIS TERNAL ATTEMPTS TO KEEP HIS TE SELF ALIVE A WORLD THAT SEEKS TO ANNIHILATE .IN A 1957 PASSAGE, HANS SUFFERS JAIL WH BOYIEND OSKAR (THOMAS PRENN), WHO ARTICULAT HOW MUCH HE ADMIR HANS FOR HIS FEARLSNS, A QUALY WHICH OSKAR SAYS HE LACKS. GREAT FREEDOM IS A FILM ABOUT LIVG AND LOVG NO MATTER THE HIGH ST, AND THE PA, MISERY AND TRAGEDY THAT DOG SO N ENTAIL. HANS IS TRAPPED BETWEEN BEG HIMSELF AND SOMEONE WHO N SAFELY SURVIVE A NATN THAT SPIS HIM, AND THE PATH HE CHARTS IS A JAGGED ONE, MARKED BY PFALLS HE DON’T FOREE OR DON’T RE TO HEED. HIS RAPPORT WH VIKTOR IS SIARLY RAGGED, WH VIKTOR FALLG TO SUBSTANCE ABE AND PENNCE AT THE SAME TIME THAT HE DRAWS CLOSER TO HANS. THEIR UNN IS FED THROUGH BLUNT SEXUAL ACTS OF NEED, POWER AND SIRE, AND MEISE SHOOTS THEM—AND THE RT OF HIS TRYSTS—WH AN EXPLICNS THAT’S TUNE WH THE OVERARCHG ROUGHNS AND LDNS OF HIS STORY’S I. “IN SUCH A BLEAK ENVIRONMENT, HANS’ MATCH PROVI THE ONLY FLICKER OF LIGHT—AN UNRSTATED VISUAL METAPHOR FOR HIS TERNAL ATTEMPTS TO KEEP HIS TE SELF ALIVE A WORLD THAT SEEKS TO ANNIHILATE .” IN A LATE SCENE, HANS AND VIKTOR WATCH NEIL ARMSTRONG TAKE HIS MOMENTO FIRST STEPS ON THE MOON, TO WHICH VIKTOR MENTS, “I THOUGHT WOULD BE MORE EXCG.” HAPPS, HOWEVER, DISCREET FORMS MEISE’S FILM, SUCH AS VIA HANS’ EFFORTS TO HELP VIKTOR SHAKE HIS DG HAB BY FIRST KNEELG BI HIM AS HE VLENTLY P TO A TOILET, AND AFTERWARD CRADLG HIM A WARM EMBRACE. GREAT FREEDOM SUGGTS THAT THERE’S EEDOM GIVG AND RECEIVG SELFLS LOVE, AND TH ’S THE SIGHT OF VIKTOR CRAWLG TO BED TO SPOON WH HANS (ON THE NIGHT FOLLOWG THE NSUMMATN OF THEIR RELATNSHIP) THAT ROUNDS THE LOUST, EXUDG AN ACHG TENRNS THAT’S FAR MORE PROFOUND THAN THE PRR RNALY DULGED BY EHER MAN.MEISE’S HAB OF SPYG ON HIS CHARACTERS DOORWAYS AND WDOWS, AS WELL AS THROUGH OTHER VISUAL AM, SPEAKS TO HANS AND VIKTOR’S STATE OF NSTRICTG NFEMENT. YET DURG THE FALE, HANS DISVERS THAT EMANCIPATN ISN’T AS CLEAR-CUT AS SEEMS, AND THAT PERHAPS THE PLACE WHERE ONE FEELS MOST EE HAS LTLE TO DO WH WALLS, BARS, OR L. GREAT FREEDOM RAIS SUCH QUTNS BUT WISELY REF TO OFFER PEDANTIC ANSWERS, STEAD CHOOSG TO ACCEPT—AS HANS DO—THE MSY AMBIGUY OF MORN LIFE. NICK SCHAGER
• HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN WAS A GAY VIRG
• HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN GAY PRI CELEBRATN PLAN SPARKS ROW IN DENMARK
• THE LTLE MERMAID'S ORIGAL STORY IS REALLY ABOUT GAY LOVE AND REJECTN
• PRCE OF LIECHTENSTE: “GAYS N GET MARRIED, BUT THEY N’T ADOPT”

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‘GREAT FREEDOM’ PROVIS A RAW, UNPROMISG LOOK AT THE PERSECUTN OF GAY MEN EAST GERMANYLOVE IS LOVEFILMMAKER SEBASTIAN MEISE’S LATT IS A GUT-WRENCHG DRAMA ABOUT GERMANY’S HISTORIL CELTY AGAST GAY MEN, LED BY AN OUTSTANDG TURN OM ACTOR FRANZ ROGOWKSI. NICK SCHAGERENTERTAMENT CRICUPDATED MAR. 05, 2022 4:18AM EST CANN FILM FTIVAL/FREIBTERFILM_ROHFILMGREAT FREEDOM TAK S TLE OM THE NAME OF A NIGHTCLUB THAT HANS HOFFMANN (TRANS’S FRANZ ROGOWSKI) ATTENDS 1969 AT THE NCLN OF SEBASTIAN MEISE’S WRENCHG DRAMA (OUT NOW THEATERS)—AN TABLISHMENT OF UNHIBED HOMOSEXUALY, NOW THAT GERMANY’S ANTI-GAY PARAGRAPH 175 STATUTE HAS BEEN RELAXED. NOHELS, TE EEDOM IS A TRICKY AND PLITED MODY THE DIRECTOR’S LONG-AWAED FOLLOW-UP TO 2011’S STILL LIFE, PECIALLY FOR HANS, WHO’S REPEATEDLY RCERATED OVER S UNR THE AFOREMENTNED LAW FOR THE CRIME OF WANTG TO BE WH OTHER MEN. A PORTRA OF LIBERATN FLOURISHG UNEXPECTED PLAC, PULS WH QUIET ANGUISH, LONGG AND FIANCE, LED BY A ROGOWSKI PERFORMANCE THAT NVEYS ASTONISHG PTHS MIMALIST GTUR.HANS IS TRODUCED AN OPENG MONTAGE OF 16MM FILM CLIPS SHOT OM BEHD A TTAGE’S BATHROOM SK MIRROR; EACH SNIPPET, HE ENGAG A SEXUAL ACT WH A STRANGER, TH MAKG CLEAR HIS PROCLIVI. THIS SURREPTLY RERD MATERIAL IS EVINCE A 1968 URT SE AGAST HIM, WHICH ENDS WH A SWIFT NVICTN AND A SENTENCE OF 24 MONTHS. IN EAST GERMANY, PARAGRAPH 175 OUTLAWS SUCH BEHAVR, AND HANS IS SENT OFF TO PRISON, WHERE HE GO THROUGH AN ADMTANCE PROCS LIKE A SEASONED PRO. JT AS THE THORI’ MERA STARED AT HIM WHILE HE PLEASURED HIS PARAMOURS, SO TOO DO GUARDS NOW STAND BY AND WATCH AS HANS STRIPS OUT OF HIS CLOTH AND SPREADS HIMSELF FOR SPECTN, UNRLG HOW SOCIETY SYSTEMATILLY GAZ AT HIM (OFTEN THE NU, AS WHEN HE’S LATER THROWN TO SOLARY NFEMENT), AND DAMNS HIM FOR WHAT SE. HANS OPERAT A SEWG MACHE THE LNDRY ROOM, AND ’S THERE THAT HE NOTIC LEO (ANTON VON LUCKE), ONE OF THE MEN WH WHOM HE’D PREVLY SHARED SOME BATHROOM-STALL TIMACY AT THE TTAGE. THOUGH HANS MAY BE THE OBJECT OF EVERYONE ELSE’S NMNATORY SCTY, HE’S A MAN WHOSE OWN EY ARE TENSELY GEY AND NFINT, SENDG D MSAG THROUGH SMALL, SLY LOOKS AND LIKEMD EXPRSNS, SUCH AS THE SE THAT SOMETIM CREEPS, ALMOST IMPERCEPTIBLY, TO THE RNER OF HIS MOUTH. ROGOWSKI’S TURN IS MARVELO FOR BEG SO ILED AND YET SO MUNITIVE, AND NO MATTER HANS’ PERSECUTN AND MONIZATN—CLUDG OM FELLOW MAT WHO OBJECT TO HIS HOMOSEXUALY—HE RRI HIMSELF WH UNFLAPPABLE NFINCE. HE’S A MAN WHO KNOWS WHO HE IS, WHAT HE WANTS, AND HOW HE N GET , EVEN A PLACE WHERE THE NCRETE WALLS AND HUMORLS GUARDS ARE TERMED TO KEEP HIM ALONE AND ALIENATED OM ANY SPARK OF JOY.THOUGH HANS HAS EY FOR LEO—A TIMID TEACHER WHO’S SPENDG HIS FIRST STT BEHD BARS, AND WHO ULTIMATELY FDS HANS A RELIABLE PROTECTOR AND PARTNER—HIS LASTG RELATNSHIP IS WH VIKTOR KOHL (GE FRIEDRICH), WHO 1968 IS A JUNKIE ON THE VERGE OF A NEW PAROLE HEARG. HANS AND VIKTOR’S NNECTN IS THE NARRATIVE THROUGH-LE OF GREAT FREEDOM, WHICH SOON LEAPS BACKWARD TIME TO 1945 TO WNS HANS FIRST ENTERG THE SAME PRISON AS A MTACHE-EE YOUNGER MAN. A RECENT RINT OF A NAZI NCENTRATN MP, HANS HAS TRAD ONE TENTN CENTER FOR ANOTHER, AND HE’S IMMEDIATELY PLACED A CELL WH VIKTOR, WHO’S DISGTED AT HAVG TO SHARE SPACE WH A HOMOSEXUAL MAN. NEVERTHELS, UPON HEARG ABOUT HANS’ WWII ORAL, HE OFFERS TO TATTOO SOMETHG OVER THE PERMANENT INTIFITN NUMBERS LG HANS’ FOREARM, THEREBY IATG A BOND THAT WILL VELOP OVER THE ENSUG YEARS. BETWEEN VIKTOR’S TATTOO NEEDLE PIERCG HANS’ SK, HANS’ STRAW POKG HOL A BIBLE ORR TO TRANSM A SECRET MSAGE TO A LOVER, THE CIGARETTE THAT’S PERPETUALLY BETWEEN HANS’ LIPS, A STIRRG PAT BSH, AND A MAN BLOWG FURLY TO A SAXOPHONE, PHALLIC AND SEXUALIZED IMAGERY ABOUNDS GREAT FREEDOM, ALBE WH A SUBTLETY THAT’S ENMIC TO THE PROCEEDGS. MEISE OFTEN LEANS HEAVILY ON SILENCE AND LAMENTG TMPET TO ADD WEIGHT AND SORROW TO HIS DRAMA, AS WELL AS OPPRSIVE DARKNS THAT AT TIM SEEMS TENT ON SWALLOWG HANS WHOLE. IN SUCH A BLEAK ENVIRONMENT, HANS’ MATCH PROVI THE ONLY FLICKER OF LIGHT—AN UNRSTATED VISUAL METAPHOR FOR HIS TERNAL ATTEMPTS TO KEEP HIS TE SELF ALIVE A WORLD THAT SEEKS TO ANNIHILATE .IN A 1957 PASSAGE, HANS SUFFERS JAIL WH BOYIEND OSKAR (THOMAS PRENN), WHO ARTICULAT HOW MUCH HE ADMIR HANS FOR HIS FEARLSNS, A QUALY WHICH OSKAR SAYS HE LACKS. GREAT FREEDOM IS A FILM ABOUT LIVG AND LOVG NO MATTER THE HIGH ST, AND THE PA, MISERY AND TRAGEDY THAT DOG SO N ENTAIL. HANS IS TRAPPED BETWEEN BEG HIMSELF AND SOMEONE WHO N SAFELY SURVIVE A NATN THAT SPIS HIM, AND THE PATH HE CHARTS IS A JAGGED ONE, MARKED BY PFALLS HE DON’T FOREE OR DON’T RE TO HEED. HIS RAPPORT WH VIKTOR IS SIARLY RAGGED, WH VIKTOR FALLG TO SUBSTANCE ABE AND PENNCE AT THE SAME TIME THAT HE DRAWS CLOSER TO HANS. THEIR UNN IS FED THROUGH BLUNT SEXUAL ACTS OF NEED, POWER AND SIRE, AND MEISE SHOOTS THEM—AND THE RT OF HIS TRYSTS—WH AN EXPLICNS THAT’S TUNE WH THE OVERARCHG ROUGHNS AND LDNS OF HIS STORY’S I. “IN SUCH A BLEAK ENVIRONMENT, HANS’ MATCH PROVI THE ONLY FLICKER OF LIGHT—AN UNRSTATED VISUAL METAPHOR FOR HIS TERNAL ATTEMPTS TO KEEP HIS TE SELF ALIVE A WORLD THAT SEEKS TO ANNIHILATE .” IN A LATE SCENE, HANS AND VIKTOR WATCH NEIL ARMSTRONG TAKE HIS MOMENTO FIRST STEPS ON THE MOON, TO WHICH VIKTOR MENTS, “I THOUGHT WOULD BE MORE EXCG.” HAPPS, HOWEVER, DISCREET FORMS MEISE’S FILM, SUCH AS VIA HANS’ EFFORTS TO HELP VIKTOR SHAKE HIS DG HAB BY FIRST KNEELG BI HIM AS HE VLENTLY P TO A TOILET, AND AFTERWARD CRADLG HIM A WARM EMBRACE. GREAT FREEDOM SUGGTS THAT THERE’S EEDOM GIVG AND RECEIVG SELFLS LOVE, AND TH ’S THE SIGHT OF VIKTOR CRAWLG TO BED TO SPOON WH HANS (ON THE NIGHT FOLLOWG THE NSUMMATN OF THEIR RELATNSHIP) THAT ROUNDS THE LOUST, EXUDG AN ACHG TENRNS THAT’S FAR MORE PROFOUND THAN THE PRR RNALY DULGED BY EHER MAN.MEISE’S HAB OF SPYG ON HIS CHARACTERS DOORWAYS AND WDOWS, AS WELL AS THROUGH OTHER VISUAL AM, SPEAKS TO HANS AND VIKTOR’S STATE OF NSTRICTG NFEMENT. YET DURG THE FALE, HANS DISVERS THAT EMANCIPATN ISN’T AS CLEAR-CUT AS SEEMS, AND THAT PERHAPS THE PLACE WHERE ONE FEELS MOST EE HAS LTLE TO DO WH WALLS, BARS, OR L. GREAT FREEDOM RAIS SUCH QUTNS BUT WISELY REF TO OFFER PEDANTIC ANSWERS, STEAD CHOOSG TO ACCEPT—AS HANS DO—THE MSY AMBIGUY OF MORN LIFE. NICK SCHAGER

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However, Disney's animated movie is self an adaptatn and actually has several differenc when pared to the origal story, which scholarly terpretatns have analyzed may actually be a metaphor for unrequed gay love. Let's take a look at Anrsen's fairy tale and the symbolism embedd the story, and see how uld very well reflect a gay thor feelg out of place a heterosexual world. Some bgraphers – cludg Jackie Wullschlager and Alison Prce – are nvced that Anrsen’s of homosexualy.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN WAS A GAY VIRG

The romance plot they renstct th rists a Victorian norm the genr of Scharf’s lovers, but  other ways is “legible the terms of the lerary and cultural romance plots that make agatn for gay marriage so pellg for many” (Michie and Warhol 111).

His homosexual relatnships seem to have been sequential, non-overlappg, emotnal, and monogamo. But all the s tacly assume that if he engaged a homosexual relatnship, would be wh one person at a time: the potential relatnships wh Edvard Coll, Edward Müller, Henrik Stampe, and Harald Scharff are non-overlappg. In the terveng centuri, “The inty of the masturbator was only one of the sexual inti subsumed, erased, or overridn this triumph of the homo/hetero lcul” (Sedgwick 826).

Yup, he won two GayVN trophi for Oral Exams and Out of Athens. Sophomore Hans wants to play lacrosse, have a different guy or girl his bed every night, and otherwise be left alone.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN GAY PRI CELEBRATN PLAN SPARKS ROW IN DENMARK

Rictor Norton, an thor who foc on LGBTQ lerary history, noted his 1998 book "My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuri, " that the story of Anrsen's life was reflected "The Ltle Mermaid. "My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuri. The recent upheaval wh the Anglin Church of North Ameri (ACNA) about “gay Anglins” stems om ignorg this le.

This, seems to me, is what’s happeng the “gay Anglin” bacle.

The Pastoral Statement sgl out, therefore, the language of “gay Christians” (and also “same-sex attracted Christians”) as a “subtle shift om intifitn Christ by modifyg our Christian inty wh personal orientatns and attractn. It begs, “Dear Gay Anglins, ” flagrantly floutg the heart of the Pastoral Statement.

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” Archbishop Foley Beach was not imprsed, observg that “replacg ‘gay Christian’ wh ‘gay Anglin’ is pretty much your face. ” The “Dear Gay Anglins” letter quickly disappeared om s webse at the stctn of Valk’s bishop. Where Bishop Hunter and the “Dear Gay Anglins” letter lamented the Pastoral Statement’s lack of pastoral foc (or tried to redirect the Statement to what they thk is a more amenable pastoral directn), Archbishop Henry C.

First, we should avoid blamg our Christian herage or the ntemporary church for sglg out the s of homosexualy. Tradnal Christian moraly do not sgle out homosexualy, whereas makg part of one’s inty do. Bis, power rol have reversed: In today’s theraptic culture, sistg on one’s gay inty mostly gets appld, while requir great urage to speak and wre biblilly about homosexualy.

It is not pastoral to keep noddg when someone self-intifi as gay. Rictor Norton, a wrer who foc on LGBTQ+ history, noted his 1998 book My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuri that the story of Anrsen’s love life was reflected the fairytale. It’s difficult to fe Han Christian Anrsen’s queer inty, and var people have argued he was bisexual, biromantic or gay.

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” Victor (Ge Friedrich) stammers disbelief, more to himself than to Hans (Franz Rogowski) fictnal character of Hans, liberated om a Nazi ncentratn mp at the end of World War II only to be sent directly to prison, is based on a chillg and often overlooked chapter German postwar is repeatedly arrted unr Paragraph 175, a law crimalizg sex between men that the Nazis expand jt a uple of years to their regime, and which was kept on the books for s law was ed, sometim wh elaborate stg operatns, to nvict up to 50, 000 gay men Wt Germany between 1945 and 1994 — roughly as many as were arrted durg the which the Nazis ed .

“For gay men, the Nazi era did not end 1945, ” said Peter Rehberg, the archivist of Schwul Mm, a gay cultural stutn Sebastian Meise, the director of “Great Freedom, ” read about the men who went om the ncentratn mps to prison bee of their sexualy, “really changed my unrstandg of history, ” he said a telephone terview om Vienna. But for many s, postwar Germany’s treatment of gay men was also neher liberal nor 1935, the Nazis strengthened Germany’s law crimalizg homosexualy, which was origally troduced the 1870s.

This allowed the regime to crimalize not jt gay sex, but almost any behavr that uld be seen to n afoul of heterosexual norms, cludg lookg at another man. Bermbach spent four weeks jail and was fed 5, 000 marks — a hefty sum at the he paid off the fe, he beme one of the thoands of gay and bisexual men who fled Paragraph 175. He moved to Paris 1960 search of more and his wrg partner Thomas Reir llected many stori om Bermbach’s generatn of gay men durg the six years they spent rearchg and wrg the script for “Great Freedom, ” visg the archiv at the Schwul Mm and the Magn Hirschfeld Foundatn, which llects terviews wh men affected by the, Paragraph 175 did not stop gay culture om evolvg Wtern Germany; the German tle of the film, “Grosse Freihe, ” is a nod to a venerable gay bar Berl where the penultimate scene tak place.