Gay Berlin birthplace of a modern identity Robert Beachy
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: A Borzoi bookPublisher: New York Knopf 2014Edition: 1. edDescription: XIX, 305 S., [8] Bl. Ill., graph. DarstContent type:- Text
- ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
- Band
- 9780307272102
- 306.7660943155 22/ger
- 306.76/60943155 23
- 300
- HQ76.2.G42
- 8,1
- MS 3165
- NR 6910
- MS 2870
- 71.25
- 15.43
- 77.85
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks | F (Affiliated) | F:HQ76.2.G42 B43 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 05/23/2024 10:00 | 2023-1094 |
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"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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