By Clayton J. Whisnant
Clayton J. Whisnant recounts the emergence of varied queer identities in Germany from 1880 to 1945 and the political innovations pursued via early gay activists. Drawing on fresh English and German-language scholarship, he enriches the talk over even if technology contributed to social development or persecution in this interval, and he bargains new info at the Nazis’ preoccupation with homosexuality. The book’s epilogue locates remnants of the pre-1945 period in Germany today.
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