Wh Ko Internatnal screeng 1989 queer film "Comg Out" on Nov 9, the GDR's first (and only) feature alg wh homosexualy, our lumnist chats to Ossis to fd out more about the East Berl gay scene.
Contents:
- GAY THE GDR? THE GAY BERLER VTIGAT AHEAD OF “COMG OUT” SCREENG
- PRI MONTH 2020: HOW BERL AND PALERMO'S GAY KISS NETFLIX'S ‘MONEY HEIST’ CHANGED THE GAME FOR QUEER FANS
GAY THE GDR? THE GAY BERLER VTIGAT AHEAD OF “COMG OUT” SCREENG
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What did the gay scene look like GDR Berl? But asi om Jochen Hick’s 2013 documentary Out Ost-Berl, gettg sight to the gay scene East Berl isn’t easy. “There were only maybe four official gay Kneipen East Berl the 1980s: Schoppenstube, Café Senefelr, Burgien and Café Prenzl.
PRI MONTH 2020: HOW BERL AND PALERMO'S GAY KISS NETFLIX'S ‘MONEY HEIST’ CHANGED THE GAME FOR QUEER FANS
When the untry crimalised homosexualy 1968 – renrg Germany’s famo anti-homosexualy law, Paragraph 175, els (Wt Germany didn’t repeal 175 until after rnifitn) – the GDR did seem light years ahead. But then, as the Wt was experiencg Gay Liberatn, the movement didn’t get much sway the pdish East.