States of Liberation : : Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany / / Samuel Clowes Huneke.

States of Liberation traces the paths of gay men in East and West Germany from the violent aftermath of the Second World War to the thundering nightclubs of present-day Berlin. Following a captivating cast of characters, from gay spies and Nazi scientists to queer politicians and secret police burea...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:German and European Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (380 p.) :; 13 b&w illustrations, 8 b&w figures, 2 b&w maps, 3 b&w tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Place Names
  • Terms and Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • 1 Dance on a Volcano: Homosexuality from the German Empire to Zero Hour
  • 2 Paranoid Republic: §175 and West Germany’s Persecution of Gay Men
  • 3 Equivocal Animus: Homosexuality and Socialism in East Germany
  • 4 Ever Disdained, Ever Despised: The Crooked Path of Emancipation in West Germany
  • 5 Gay Spies in Cold War Germany
  • 6 Three Million Votes: Gay Citizenship and Power in West Germany
  • 7 Into the Labyrinth: When Gay Activists Met the Socialist State
  • 8 “I’m Not the Chancellor of the Gays”: Homosexual Politics in 1980s West Germany
  • 9 A Golden Age in the Grey Republic: Liberation and the Stasi in East Germany
  • Epilogue
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • GERMAN AND EUROPEAN STUDIES