Wh CSD and KCSD g up (Jun 27), glter and gaiety will be out on the streets full force, but Berl has always been ahead of the queer curve. Here's a timele of the LGBTQ rights movement gay ol' Berl.
Contents:
- GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA
- BERL & GAY LIBERATN LONG BEFORE STONEWALL
- 10 FACTS ON THE ORIGS OF GAY RIGHTS BERL
GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA
Alex Ross on Robert Beachy’s new book, “Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty.” * berlin gay history *
Still, he had an effect: a few liberal-md lleagu accepted his notn of an nate gay inty, and a Bavarian official privately nfsed to siar yearngs.
BERL & GAY LIBERATN LONG BEFORE STONEWALL
The right-wg rurgence Germany rells prewar Berl. It may signal an omo turn for the untry’s gay muny. * berlin gay history *
”The first chapter of Robert Beachy’s “Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty” (Knopf) begs wh an acunt of Ulrichs’s dac act. The tle of the chapter, “The German Inventn of Homosexualy, ” telegraphs a prcipal argument of the book: although same-sex love is as old as love self, the public disurse around , and the polil movement to w rights for , arose Germany the late neteenth and early twentieth centuri. This msage may surprise those who believe that gay inty me of age London and New York, sometime between the Osr Wil trials and the Stonewall rts.
10 FACTS ON THE ORIGS OF GAY RIGHTS BERL
* berlin gay history *
The btal reprsn of gay people durg the Nazi perd largely erased German gay history om ternatnal nscns, and even om German memory. Beachy, a historian who teach at Yonsei Universy, Seoul, ends his book by notg that Germans hold gay-pri celebratns each June on what is known as Christopher Street Day, honor of the street where the Stonewall prott unfold.
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