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
SNDALS: WILHELM'S GAY IENDS SHOOK THE EMPIRE
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” The kaiser had already been hurt polilly 1907 by the Eulenburg-Harn affair, which members of his circle of iends were acced of beg homosexuals. Although there is no evince that Wilhelm was gay– addn to his seven children wh his first wife, he was mored to have several illegimate offsprg–the sndal was ed by his polil opponents to weaken his fluence.
WAS KAISER WILHELM II OF GERMANY GAY?
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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. ”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.
THE LONG, SORDID HISTORY OF THE GAY CONSPIRACY THEORY
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