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

Contents:

• GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI
• A SHORT GAY HISTORY OF GERMANY AND §175
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA

GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI

And now all ey on our road trip around Germany’s highlights wh rmatn about LGBTQ+ hot spots, cultural highlights, and our favore thgs to do while travelg as a gay uple om Wtern Europe. Addnally, we will spend some days some of the most LGBTQ+ and gay-iendly German ci cludg Berl, Drn, Munich, Heilberg, and all the cute ltle villag, stl, and towns on our way. Although the LGBTQ+ and gay scen are prehensible, events, parti, and loli are offerg a diverse queer life for the lols and for LGBTQ+ travelers.

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But actually, the first public LGBTQ+ rights prott took place Germany, over a century earlier, 1867—one year before the term ‘homosexualy’ was ed, German!

A SHORT GAY HISTORY OF GERMANY AND §175

The Nazis ma more severe and imprisoned 10, 000 gay men (and some lbians, although they were not vered by Paragraph 175) ncentratn mps, where they were marked wh the pk triangle—and a majory died.

But there is plenty to see today to remember the highs and lows of German LGBTQ+ history, om the Monument to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Natnal Socialism and the Schwul Mm (Gay Mm), both Berl, to the Dtsche Eiche bar and bathhoe Munich, where Freddie Mercury hung out the 1970s.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

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Specifilly, we ed the German ernment’s own rearch on §175 om the Mistry of Edutn to provi an overview of laws that dictated how gay people were treated. In the Middle Ag, this ban turned to a ath sentence for those ught, and until 1794, Article 116 of the Pssian Regnal Court ntued to uphold this ath sentence for homosexual men. They began followg gay men wh somethg lled the Rosa Wkel which is an upsi-down pk triangle ed to tegorize homosexual men who were then eher sent to ncentratn mps or offered medil stratn to avoid beg sent away.

Homosexualy transformed om a ath sentence wh Article 116 to crimal behavr wh §175 to a type of mental illns morn psychology (§175 still existed, but was sometim enforced ls or changed pendg on someone’s age). 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. As mentned above, people were only allowed to exist as homosexuals for a brief perd of time whout facg the ath sentence the send half of the 19th century.

As a rponse to the sudn backlash, the first German homosexual movement was formed to fight agast the growg sentiments along wh §175 until 1933 when the Natnal Socialists took power.

From 1919 to 1933, there were also signs of a growg gay culture German society wh the serial magaze for gay men lled Die Frndschaft that had pictur, erotic poems, stori, and other thgs. Bee only wealthy gay men were able to avoid punishment unr §175, meant that the only gay men the workg-class enuntered were upper-class and often were polilly very fluential. 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.

Wh the stricter laws, gay men were followed and put to ncentratn mps wh the Rosa Wkel (upsi-down pk triangle) while lbians were tegorized as “asocial” and discrimated agast through the lack of women’s rights or rights to their own bodi.

This element of female homosexualy is a ntuo theme throughout German history until after World War II wh femist and queer movements Germany formg that also clud homosexual women. After the ncentratn mps were dissolved, the homosexual men went to prison unr §175 which upheld the crimalizatn of homosexual acts between men. 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. While 1957 the laws crimalizg homosexualy East Germany were rarely upheld, the Wt German ernment held fast to their Christian beliefs and ntued to uphold §175.

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.