Alex Ross on Robert Beachy’s new book, “Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty.”
Contents:
- SNDALS: WILHELM'S GAY IENDS SHOOK THE EMPIRE
- WAS KAISER WILHELM II OF GERMANY GAY?
- THE LONG, SORDID HISTORY OF THE GAY CONSPIRACY THEORY
- ATHEIST AND GAY, FRERICK THE GREAT WAS MORE RADIL THAN MOST LEARS TODAY
SNDALS: WILHELM'S GAY IENDS SHOOK THE EMPIRE
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Speakg of the homosexual sndals of Wilhelm’s urt, the Harn-Eulenberg affair has led many historians to suggt the theory that Wilhelm was a eply reprsed gay man. There were gay men among his clost advisors, as the trials revealed, and Eulenberg’s own romantic feelgs for Wilhelm also me to light. In November 1906, the journalist Maxiian Harn opened a mpaign agast the homosexual "marilla" around Wilhelm II wh a subtle article.
WAS KAISER WILHELM II OF GERMANY GAY?
Today’s right-wg mpaign agast “groomers” is Ameri’s latt moral panic. Gog back to the early 20th century, gays were often at the center of nspiracy theori to unrme the ernment. * wilhelm ii gay *
There were also tchy letters that at least suggted a homosexual relatnship between the two of them, which had prevly been a topic of nversatn higher circl.
Bee that was what Harn was about: by placg the emperor at the center of a homosexual “marilla”, he wanted to fame his “ia of a 'personal regiment' wh stctively negative associatns”, wr the historian and Pssia expert Christopher Clark his Wilhelm II.
THE LONG, SORDID HISTORY OF THE GAY CONSPIRACY THEORY
Homosexualy was lobbed as an sult durg the war while gay people hid , but sometim would "hi pla sight." * wilhelm ii gay *
Display Two weeks later, Harn Eulenburg me out openly as gay: "Prce Friedrich Herich von Pssia (a of Wilhelm II, whose homosexualy had bee public January 1907; the edor) had to bee he suffers om hered perversn of the sexual stct, renounce the men's champnship the Orr of St.
ATHEIST AND GAY, FRERICK THE GREAT WAS MORE RADIL THAN MOST LEARS TODAY
”In fact, Wilhelm II now unrtook a liberatn: He removed all of Eulenburg's iends, whether gay or not, om his Eulenburg herself uld not "hold on" much longer after Moltke's parture - jt as Barons Spzemberg had speculated. But public, as wh Wilhelm II, the former cy mandant and nfidante of the imperial fay was regard as persona non grata; he died Brl emperor, who was said to have homophile tennci om time to time, and who on the other hand cultivated extramaral relatns wh noble women as well as urtans, relied more than ever on monstrative masculy.