From the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life
and sexualities appear inseparable. Cities are the source of our most familiar images of …

In the aftermath of the reunification of Germany one former dissident recalled nostalgically
that under the East German regime'we had more sex and we had more to laugh about'. Love …

Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany's Weimar Republic
have become legendary. The home of the world's first gay rights movement, the republic …

Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East
Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become …

The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view
from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in …

Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in
LGBT history, including the growth of the world's first homosexual organizations and gay and …

In The Queer Art of History Jennifer V. Evans examines postwar and contemporary German
history to broadly argue for a practice of queer history that moves beyond bounded concepts …

Whisnant argues that the period after Nazism was more important for the history of
homosexuality in Germany than is generally recognized. Gay scenes resurfaced; a more …

Turkish Guest Workers in Germany tells the post-war story of Turkish" guest workers," whom
West German employers recruited to fill their depleted ranks. Jennifer A. Miller's unique …

This article discusses health concerns of migrant street-based male sex workers (SMSW) in
Germany, a population that remains underexplored by health and social scientists. It is …