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 …

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 …

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 …

Writing in 2001, the Harvard professor Charles S. Maier, one of the most distinguished
historians of twentieth-century Germany, suggested that the memory of communism in …

The examination of these extraordinary and previously unknown discussions allows us to
explore the relevance of Michel Foucault's complex writing on 'the history of sexuality'to …

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 …

Abstract The HIB (Homosexuelle Interessengemeinschaft Berlin, or Homosexual Interest
Group Berlin), a gay and lesbian rights group, was active in East Berlin in the 1970s. As well …

This essay examines ways in which historians might learn from queer approaches to the
past. Drawing inspiration from queer theory and ideas long circulating in cultural, literary and …

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 …

In 2008, a monument to the gay victims of the Holocaust was erected that paid tribute only to
its male victims, reigniting a long-running debate regarding the fate of lesbians in the Third …