![]() ![]() ![]() Buy a discounted Paperback of Gay Berlin online from Australias leading online. Berlin of the 1920s was a place of tremendous cultural and scientific experimentation, including innovative theories of gender and transsexuality. Booktopia has Gay Berlin, Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy. This talk considers this academic climate, as well as the uninhibited urban sexuality of 1920s Weimar Berlin, which boasted a vast network of gay, lesbian, and “transvestite” clubs and other associations. : Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity (9780307272102) by Beachy, Robert and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books. ![]() ![]() Not only was the term “homosexuality” originally a German invention ( Homosexualität), Berlin also sponsored the world’s first gay rights organization and the first gay periodical. By beginning of the new century Berlin had become a place where scholars, activists, and medical professionals could explore and begin to educate both themselves and Europe about new and emerging sexual identities. This illustrated lecture by Robert Beachy, author of Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity ( Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014), chronicles how culture in Berlin in the early twentieth century shaped our modern understanding of homosexuality. Find more information on the location and parking below. ![]()
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