Andrea Rottmann: Queer Lives across the Wall

Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970. UK 2023, 266 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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University of Toronto Press
Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s. Andrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces - including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons - facilitated and restricted queer lives in ... Weiterlesen

Samuel Clowes Huneke: States of Liberation

Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. UK 2022, 380 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Toronto Press
States of Liberation traces the paths of gay men in East and West Germany from the violent aftermath of the Second World War to the thundering nightclubs of present-day Berlin. Following a captivating cast of characters, from gay spies and Nazi scientists to queer politicians and secret police bureaucrats, States of Liberation tells the remarkable story of how the two ... Weiterlesen

Laurie Marhoefer: Racism and the Making of Gay Rights

A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love. CAN 2022, 320 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Toronto Press
In 1931 Magnus Hirschfeld arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a Li Shiu Tong, medical student - Magnus Hirschfeld fell in love with him. Li became Hirschfeld's assistant on a lecture tour around the world. »Racism and the Making of Gay Rights« shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay ... Weiterlesen

Javier Samper Vendrell: The Seduction of Youth

Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic. USA 2020, 280 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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A simple man from the provinces, Friedrich Radszuweit merged popular culture, consumerism, and politics as the leader of the League for Human Rights, Germany's first mass homosexual organization. The Seduction of Youth is the first study to focus on the League and its leader, using his position at the centre of the Weimar-era gay rights movement to tease out the ... Weiterlesen