The Gay Berler: Death the dark? - Exberler

Contents:

• THE GAY BERLER: DEATH THE DARK?
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• HOW WE PUT BERL’S GAY CLUBBG SCENE ON FILM
• ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ AND THE LONG SHADOW OF AN ANTI-GAY LAW GERMANY

THE GAY BERLER: DEATH THE DARK?

Germany has been churng out gay hs for nearly a century. Here, 11 gay movi, om the dramatic to the edic, om the absurd to the touchg, om the Weimer Republic to unified Berl, straight out of Germany. Madchen Uniform ("Girls Uniform"), 1931: While homosexualy was simply allud to the aforementned flicks, was on full display Madchen Uniform, the tale of a boardg school girl who falls for her teacher.

Anrs als du und Ich ("Different From You and Me"), 1957: Not to be nfed wh the siarly gay 1919 movie Anrs als die Anrn ("Different om the Others"), this mid-20th Century narrative revolv around rich kid Kls's affair wh a lower-class peer named Maned. And drama also ensued when the picture me out -- not only were nservativ displeased wh the gay ntent, early gay activists were livid over an endg which, spoiler alert, Kls is "cured" of his homosexualy. Nicht r Homosexuelle ist pervers, sonrn die Suatn, r er lebt ("It Is Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But The Society In Which He Liv"), 1971: Perhaps one of the most ntroversial gay featur ever to e out of Germany, or anywhere else, this mouthful of a movie and s portrayal of gay men as shallow, fashn-obssed, limp wristed weaklgs created such a stir that the viotaped cricisms om gay activists nstute their own short.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

It's lled "Audience Rponse to It's not the Homosexual... "Nicht r Homosexuelle ist pervers, sonrn die Suatn, r er lebt (GAYfilm 1971)Zum Film:... Fstrecht r Freihe ("Fox and His Friends"), 1975: Inic New Cema filmmaker Raer Werner Fassbr directed, wrote, and starred this story of a gay man who falls for a wealthy heir.

HOW WE PUT BERL’S GAY CLUBBG SCENE ON FILM

Taxi zum Klo ("Taxi to the John", or "Taxi to the Toilet"), 1981: Frank Ripploh's semi-tobgraphil drama about a prim and proper school teacher wh a hardre after-hours sex life was groundbreakg and sensatnal for s time, and ed remas a cult classic (and one of the sexit gay films acrdg to director John Cameron Mchell). -- premiered the very night the Berl Wall Out (1989) Trailer | Heer CarowReportedly the first film to e out of East Germany to al openly wh gay issu. Lola und Bilidikid (Lola and Billy The Kid), 1999: Wrer/Director Kutlug Ataman had hoped to film this story of a young man tryg to rencile his homosexualy wh Islam Turkey, the ma character's fay's homeland, but he uldn't shore up enough support.

‘GREAT FREEDOM’ AND THE LONG SHADOW OF AN ANTI-GAY LAW GERMANY

Instead, Sherry Hormann's rom- tackl homophobia sports by stg Maxiian Bckner as Ecki, a closeted soccer player who back strong after beg booted om his team for beg gay.

The 185 gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr actors — among them Babylon Berl star Udo Samel, and Kar Hanczewski and Mark Waschke om No. “We intify, among other thgs, as lbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, ter and nonbary, ” the manifto reads. ‘Comg Out’ (1989) Premierg on the night the Berl Wall fell, on 9 November 1989, Comg Out was the first and only film about gay life produced munist East Germany, acrdg to the DEFA Film Library.

It tak viewers on a journey through gay Berl, through the sufferg of the 1950s and ’60s, the re-emergence of a queer subculture, wh bars, clubs and sexual eedom, the 1970s, and the pneerg gay rights movement. Explor the unique iendship of a young, gay, Turkish man and a blond, blue-eyed German crimal.