Between World Wars, Gay Society Flourished In Berlin

Between World Wars, Gay Society Flourished In Berlin

Between World Wars, Gay Heritage Flourished In Berlin

In Gay Berlin, Robert Beachy defines the increase of a homosexual subculture in the 1920s and ’30s, just just exactly exactly exactly how it contributed to the knowledge of homosexual identification and exactly how it absolutely was expunged because of the Nazis.

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