QUEER IDENTITIES AND POLITICS IN GERMANY
A History
1880-1945
By
Clayton J. Whisnant
400 pages
Paperback, $40.00 ISBN: 9781939594099
Hardcover, $95.00 ISBN: 9781939594082
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The Politics of Homosexuality in Weimar Germany
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17312/harringtonparkpress/2016.08.qipg.005
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17312/harringtonparkpress/2016.08.qipg.005
This chapter tells the story of the homosexual movement and the fight against Paragraph 175 during the Weimar era. It considers how the First World War and the German revolution of 1918 created both new opportunities and new challenges for the homosexual movement.