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By Clayton J. Whisnant

Germany within the past due 19th and early 20th centuries witnessed key advancements in LGBT historical past, together with the expansion of the world’s first gay agencies and homosexual and lesbian magazines, in addition to an influential neighborhood of German sexologists and psychoanalysts. Queer Identities and Politics in Germany describes those occasions intimately, from brilliant homosexual social scenes to the Nazi persecution that despatched many LGBT humans to focus camps.

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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