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Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity

Robert Beachy

Why we're reading this: History of male homosexuality in Germany from the middlle of the 19th century to the Weimar Republic
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Sep 04, 2015 Sara rated it really liked it

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An exhaustive look at the social forces and people who forged the modern gay identity. Not just a Weimar time travel fantasy, although there's plenty of that included.
Magnus Hirschfeld is often all too briefly mentioned in LGBT histories as that cuddly, eccentric uncle who gave us a few antiquated names for use in period dramas, but Beachy reveals him to be nothing short of a visionary and a hero. And while he doesn't exactly come to a happy end, you'll breathe a sigh of relief that his foresig ...more

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Apr 25, 2015 Shawn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: history, glbt

Although I thought I had a pretty good grounding in the gay history of the Weimar era, I still found this book very enlightening about that period, and much more so with its coverage of the (by comparison to everywhere else in the world) amazingly advanced state of the struggle for homosexual rights in pre-Weimar Germany, a struggle that began a good eighty years before Stonewall.

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