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Contents:
- GAY HISTORY – DECEMBER 28, 1888: GERMAN DIRECTOR F. W. MURN OF “NOSFERATU” FAME IS BORN
- INSI THE WORLD OF PETER BERL, GROUNDBREAKG PHOTOGRAPHER AND GAY IN
- ‘ON THE SAME LEVEL AS THE NAZIS’: THE FILM ABOUT GERMANY’S POSTWAR PERSECUTN OF GAY MEN
- ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ AND THE LONG SHADOW OF AN ANTI-GAY LAW GERMANY
GAY HISTORY – DECEMBER 28, 1888: GERMAN DIRECTOR F. W. MURN OF “NOSFERATU” FAME IS BORN
Friedrich Wilhelm Murn was born December 28th, 1888. An openly gay German director, he is bt known for his work Nosferatu, and on the film Sunrise… * gay german director *
Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wiv acted his films and the other served as his edor.
INSI THE WORLD OF PETER BERL, GROUNDBREAKG PHOTOGRAPHER AND GAY IN
A new book chronicl the life and work of the groundbreakg photographer and gay in Peter Berl. * gay german director *
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Germany, ed, was one of the gay-iendlier spots the world until the Nazis took power.
‘ON THE SAME LEVEL AS THE NAZIS’: THE FILM ABOUT GERMANY’S POSTWAR PERSECUTN OF GAY MEN
Murn emigrated to Hollywood 1926, where he liv his life as an out gay man and joed the Fox Studs and ma Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), a movie often ced by scholars as one of the greatt of all time.
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‘GREAT FREEDOM’ AND THE LONG SHADOW OF AN ANTI-GAY LAW GERMANY
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