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A Fascatg Exhibn Berl Is Dedited to a Group of Gay and Lbian German Jews Who Fought for the Rights of Both Communi Durg Nazi Rule.

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GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA

The right-wg rurgence Germany rells prewar Berl. It may signal an omo turn for the untry’s gay muny. * jentezen franklin gays *

Jentezen Frankl: I started mistry wh my brother Richie when he was a senr llege and I was a sophomore. That summer after my sophomore year, I started travelg wh Richie, dog mic while he preached. It may signal an omo turn for the untry’s gay the Nazi Party seized power 1933, Berl's Instute for Sexual Science was looted, s library burned and staff persecuted.

“There’s been a gay bar of some kd at this addrs for more than 100 years, ” Nash, an energetic 54-year-old, explaed to a walkg tour he was leadg as he gtured enthiastilly at a neon sign outsi, which featured ttle wh large nose rgs.

But LGBT-rights groups have warned of a parallel rise of vlent homophobia mastream the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party stormed to the Bunstag last year, s policians have lled for homosexuals to be imprisoned, vowed to repeal gay marriage, and nounced those sufferg om HIV. They are also remrs of Germany’s fascist past and, rights groups worry, signs of dangero future clamp-downs on vulnerable is a powerfully queer place—gay culture, polics, activism, clubs, and sex reverberate through the cy.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy and persecuted gay men between 1933 and 1945. * jentezen franklin gays *

Crowds here dance unr nfetti ra at annual Christopher Street Day, or gay pri, paras.

GAY AND JEWISH WARTIME BERL: THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND ZNISM

The 1920s and early ‘30’s looked like the begng of the end for centuri of gay tolerance. Then me fascism and the Nazis. * jentezen franklin gays *

But “Germany is not the shy, progrsive untry wish to be portrayed as, ” says Katr Hugendubel, the advocy director of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn Europe (ILGA-Europe), which reprents more than 1, 000 LGBT 1918, when Bull’s precsor first opened, Weimar-era Germany was embarkg on a sndalo . Gay muni New York, Paris, and London faced the threat of imprisonment, fancial , murr, or even executn. Berl’s reputatn for wild immoraly and s unually liberal law enforcement, by ntrast, helped turn the cy to Europe’s undisputed gay the 1920s, Berl was home to an timated 85, 000 lbians, a thrivg gay-media scene, and around 100 LGBT bars and clubs, where artists and wrers mixed wh cross-drsg ll girls who supposedly spired the Some Like It Hot director Billy Wilr.

Magn Hirschfeld’s revolutnary Instute for Sexual Science openly lobbied for the crimalizatn of homosexualy and helped transgenr men apply wh ernment agenci to live legally unr their new genr.

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