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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.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

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. 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:...

HOW WE PUT BERL’S GAY CLUBBG SCENE ON 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. 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. 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.

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

“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. They’re seemgly ont and centre gay nversatn as exemplified early 2020 by a film and an (almost leral) rise om the ash after a Behör blocka.