TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beachy,Robert
TI  - Gay Berlin: birthplace of a modern identity
T2  - A Borzoi book
SN  - 9780307272102
AV  - HQ76.2.G42 
U1  - 306.7660943155 22/ger
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Knopf
KW  - Gay men
KW  - Germany
KW  - Berlin
KW  - Identity
KW  - Gay culture
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Homosexualität
KW  - Class of Fall 2015
KW  - Guest speaker
KW  - Berlin Collection
N1  - Literaturverz. S. [275] - 295
N2  - "A detailed historical look at the surprising ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity.  Long known for the friendly company of its "warm brothers" (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, even before the turn of the twentieth-century, was a place where educators, activists, and medical professionals could explore and begin to educate both themselves and Europe about new and emerging sexual identities. From Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a German activist described by some as the world's first openly gay man, to the world of Berlin's vast homosexual subcultures-tolerated and monitored by the police commissioner through the "Department of Homosexuals and Blackmailers"-to a major sex scandal that enraptured the daily newspapers and shook the court of Emperor William II, and on through some of the world's first sex reassignment surgeries, Beachy deftly guides the reader through past events and developments that continue to shape and influence the way we think of sexuality to this day. Gay Berlin is certain to be considered a foundational study"--; "A detailed historical look at the surprising ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity"--
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