Berl Gay Mm is a mm Berl. View visor rmatn, rmatn about the llectn and read reviews.
Contents:
- SCHWUL MM (GAY MM)
- BERL MM SHEDS LIGHT ON GAY HISTORY GERMANY
- BERL GAY MM
- QUEER AS GERMAN FOLK: EXHIBN AT THE GAY MM BERL
SCHWUL MM (GAY MM)
The Gay Mm Berl sets an example for tolerance and diversy. Changg exhibns provi thentic sights to queer inti. * german gay history museum *
Found 1985, the Gay Mm has been showg curated art as well as has displayed treasur om s own llectn temporary special exhibns ever sce.
BERL MM SHEDS LIGHT ON GAY HISTORY GERMANY
A jot exhibn by the German Historil Mm and the Schwul Mm Berl documents gay history, polics and culture Germany. * german gay history museum *
The followg year, the "Associatn of Friends of a Gay Mm Berl" is formed wh a change of venue: a mm wh a library and archive is stalled a buildg belongg to AHA, a gay rights workg group. In the summer of 1984, the legendary exhibn Eldorado – the History, Everyday Life and Culture of Homosexual Women and Men 1850-1950 took place the Berl Mm, curated by the three iators llaboratn wh a group of lbian activists.
In the offic of the “Allgemee Homosexuelle Arbesgemeschaft AHA” (General Homosexual Workg Group) Friedrichstraße, the foundatn was laid for a mm, a library and an archive. The German Historil Mm, Berl and the Schwul Mm are jotly prentg “Homosexualy_i, ” which explor the gay history, polics, and culture Germany. The exhibn shows how same-sex and non-nformist genr inti were crimalized by succsive ernments over the last 150 years, pathologized by medice, and how gays were driven to the g of society.
BERL GAY MM
Alex Ross on Robert Beachy’s new book, “Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty.” * german gay history museum *
In ntrast to the social reprsn suffered by the German gay muny, the exhibn also documents the liberatn movement of gay men and lbian women, which succsfully changed social perceptns on same-sex relatnships and genr inty.
“In the exhibn ‘Homosexualy_i’, the Dtsch Historisch Mm is grapplg wh this important disurse for the first time s nearly 30-year history. Still, he had an effect: a few liberal-md lleagu accepted his notn of an nate gay inty, and a Bavarian official privately nfsed to siar yearngs.
The tle of the chapter, “The German Inventn of Homosexualy, ” telegraphs a prcipal argument of the book: although same-sex love is as old as love self, the public disurse around , and the polil movement to w rights for , arose Germany the late neteenth and early twentieth centuri. This msage may surprise those who believe that gay inty me of age London and New York, sometime between the Osr Wil trials and the Stonewall rts.
QUEER AS GERMAN FOLK: EXHIBN AT THE GAY MM BERL
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Beachy, a historian who teach at Yonsei Universy, Seoul, ends his book by notg that Germans hold gay-pri celebratns each June on what is known as Christopher Street Day, honor of the street where the Stonewall prott unfold.
” In the eighteen-eighti, a Berl police missner gave up prosecutg gay bars and stead stuted a policy of bemed tolerance, gog so far as to lead tours of a growg mimon. By the begng of the twentieth century, a non of gay lerature had emerged (one early advote ed the phrase “Stayg silent is ath, ” nearly a century before aids activists ed the slogan “Silence = Death”); activists were bemoang negative pictns of homosexualy (Thomas Mann’s “Death Venice” was one target); there were bat over the ethics of outg; and a schism opened between an clive, mastream factn and a more rto, anarchistic wg. In 1929, the Reichstag moved toward the crimalizatn of homosexualy, although the chaos ed by that fall’s stock-market crash prevented a fal did all this happen Germany?
Clayton Whisnant, [Introductn]: Gay German History: Future Directns?, Journal of the History of Sexualy, Vol. 17, No. 1, Masculy and Homosexualy Germany and the German Coloni, 1880-1945 (Jan., 2008), pp. 1-10 * german gay history museum *
The towerg legacy of German ialism and Romanticism, which helps to expla why the gay-rights movement took root Germany, has self bee somewhat obscure, pecially outsi the German school system. The episo suggts the gree to which the German cultural and tellectual tradn, particularly the Romantic age, which stretched om Goethe and Schiller to Schopenher and Wagner, embolned those who me to intify themselv as gay and lbian. Lerary figur pursued a cult of iendship that borred on the homoerotic, although most of the time the fervid talk of embrac and kiss remaed jt talk.
”) Schopenher proceed to expound the dub theory that nature promoted homosexualy olr men as a way of disuragg them om ntug to surprisgly, Karl Herich Ulrichs seized on Schopenher’s cur piece of advocy when he began his mpaign; he quoted the philosopher one of his g-out letters to his relativ. Ulrichs might also have mentned Wagner, who, “Die Walküre” and “Tristan und Isol, ” picted illic passns that many late-neteenth-century homosexuals saw as allegori for their own experience.