In other words, Weimar Germany witnessed arguably the first international gay rights movement with Berlin at its center.> CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK <<<< Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.įirst 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ._Gay Berlin Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy Ebook Epub PDF bic It was in Berlin where scientists concluded that ‘same sex love was a natural, inborn characteristic and not merely the perversion of a ‘normal’ sexual tendency’, author and scholar Robert Beachy writes in his compelling book, Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Knopf Publishers. Male prostitution, homosexual bars and nightclubs, cabarets populated by gay men, lesbians and transsexuals flourished in a wild, incomparable sexual subculture that was exciting yet dangerous. The words ‘homosexual’ or ‘transvestite’ were German innovations. The science of ‘transsexuality’ was founded in Berlin at the Institute of Sexual Science where the first male-to-female surgery was performed.
The city's liberal years - before the rise of Hitler - are detailed in a new book, Gay Berlin.
Sexual experimentation between the same sexes and medical advances of helping genders ‘trapped within the wrong body’ in Germany more than one hundred years ago shaped our understanding of gay identity today. Think West Hollywood, Greenwich Village and Provincetown and the Castro, known as hotbeds of homosexuality.īut they are nothing like the uninhibited urban gay sexual scene and vast homosexual subculture that flourished in Berliin under Germany's Weimar Republic. Think Liza Minnelli and Joel Gray in Carberet. Berlin was a liberal hotbed of homosexuality and a mecca for cross dressers and transsexuals where the first male-to-female surgery was performed - until the Nazis came to power, new book reveals (2014)
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