A short gay history of Germany and §175 | Feather Blog

Contents:

• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• A SHORT GAY HISTORY OF GERMANY AND §175
• GAY RIGHTS
• BETWEEN WORLD WARS, GAY CULTURE FLOURISHED IN BERL
• STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

Here we experience the nce that thrived before the fall, at a hiaway for those whose differenc would soon mark them for prison, exile, or, many s, ath ( is timated that between 5, 000 and 15, 000 gay people died the ncentratn mps for vlatg Paragraph 175).

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Throughout the s, German rearchers have attempted to unrstand why people exhib homosexual behavrs om their relatnship wh their parents, trmatic experienc, hormonal disturbanc, or even as recently as the 1990s wh a “Homo-Gen” or homosexual gene.

A SHORT GAY HISTORY OF GERMANY AND §175

There were ternal bat wh the ernment at the time as to how strict the law should be agast homosexual men wh advot for genr segregatn potg to bonds between men beg nearly separable om homosexual behavr and racial purists potg towards stricter laws. It wasn’t until the 1970s that both lbians and gay men are documented to have e together to fight for equal rights – somethg que different om Wt Germany as the movements were separated to the femist movement and the gay liberatn (men only) movement. The Humboldt Universy Berl published a paper 1985 elaboratg on this: „Zur Suatn homophiler Bürger r DDR“ (About the suatn of the homosexual cizen East Germany” and durg the same year, a nference was held on the psycho-social aspects of homosexualy.

GAY RIGHTS

Sce both gay men and women were already anizg East Germany and two different movements formed Wt Germany, they me together to host the first CSD or Christopher Street Day (spired by the name of the street where the Stonewall Rts took place) Bremen and Berl 1979. There is still a lot of work to be done om makg easier to have two legal parents of the same genr to gay men adoptg children, to makg sure that discrimatn agast gay upl isn’t ed through differg termology like Lebenspartnershaft (life partnership) and Ehe (marriage). 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.

BETWEEN WORLD WARS, GAY CULTURE FLOURISHED IN BERL

By the begng of the twentieth century, a non of gay lerature had emerged (one early advote ed the phrase “Stayg silent is ath, ” nearly a century before aids activists ed the slogan “Silence = Death”); activists were bemoang negative pictns of homosexualy (Thomas Mann’s “Death Venice” was one target); there were bat over the ethics of outg; and a schism opened between an clive, mastream factn and a more rto, anarchistic wg.

STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY

”) Schopenher proceed to expound the dub theory that nature promoted homosexualy olr men as a way of disuragg them om ntug to surprisgly, Karl Herich Ulrichs seized on Schopenher’s cur piece of advocy when he began his mpaign; he quoted the philosopher one of his g-out letters to his relativ. Magn Hirschfeld, his 1914 book “The Homosexualy of Men and Women, ” noted that the Wagner ftival Bayrth had bee a “favore meetg place” for homosexuals, and quoted a classified ad, om 1894, which a young man had sought a handsome pann for a Tyrolean bicyclg expedn; was signed “Numa 77, general livery, Bayrth.

His tert effemacy among homosexual men, his attentn to lbianism, and his fascatn wh cross-drsg among both gay and straight populatns (he ed the word “transvtism”) offend men who believed that their lt for fellow-mal, pecially for younger on, ma them more virile than the rt of the populatn. ” There is no mentn, for example, of the theatre and mic cric Theo Anna Sprüngli, who, 1904, spoke to the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee on the subject of “Homosexualy and the Women’s Movement, ” helpg to gurate a parallel movement of lbian activism. Disdaful reprentatns of gay life were not only lamented but also protted; Beachy pots out that when a 1927 Komische Oper revue lled “Strictly Forbidn” mocked gay men as effemate, a monstratn at the theatre prompted the Komische Oper to remove the offendg sk.

The openns of Berl’s gay scene attracted visors om more benighted lands; Christopher Isherwood lived the cy om 1929 to 1933, enjoyg the easy availabily of htlers, who, Beachy’s book, have a somewhat exhstg chapter to the gay muny, the masculist-sexologil spl persisted.

Some of Brand’s associat were flirtg wh Nazism, and not jt a metaphoril sense; one of them later beme the lover of Ernst Röhm, the head of the Brown the First World War, a new figure entered the ay: Friedrich Radszuwe, an entreprenr who tablished a work of gay publitns, cludg the first lbian magaze, Die Frnd.

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.