Alex Ross on Robert Beachy’s new book, “Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty.”
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.
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.
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 *
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.
BERL GAY MM
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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.
QUEER AS GERMAN FOLK: EXHIBN AT THE GAY MM BERL
The dashgly charmg -founr of the Llie-Lohman Mm v si his SoHo apartment—an unbelievable monument to gay creativy and art. " data-reactroot=" * german gay history museum *
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.
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 *
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.