States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany

States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany

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

States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany

by Samuel Clowes Huneke

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Overview

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 bureaucrats, States of Liberation tells the remarkable story of how the two German states persecuted gay men – and how those men slowly, over the course of decades, won new rights and created new opportunities for themselves in the heart of Cold War Europe. Relying on untapped archives in Germany and the United States as well as oral histories with witnesses and survivors, Huneke reveals that communist East Germany was in many ways far more progressive on queer issues than democratic West Germany.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781487542146
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 02/15/2022
Series: German and European Studies
Pages: 380
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Samuel Clowes Huneke is an assistant professor of history at George Mason University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Place Names
Terms and Abbreviations
List of Figures

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
Bibliography

What People are Saying About This

Dan Healey

“Samuel Clowes Huneke brilliantly excavates the half-forgotten story of gay activism on both sides of the Iron Curtain, with startling results for those who assume only capitalist democracy can cradle our futures.”

Monica Black

“Samuel Clowes Huneke's highly anticipated and superb book disturbs complacent Cold War-era assumptions about liberal democracy's 'natural' inclination toward expanding rights and state socialism's alleged failures.”

James J. Sheehan

“By carefully examining the lives of gay men in the postwar era, Samuel Clowes Huneke's gracefully written and deeply researched book provides new insights into the differences — and similarities — in West and East German states and society.”

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