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Berlin was a liberal hotbed of homosexuality and a mecca for cross dressers and transsexuals where the first male-to-female surgery was performed - until the Nazis came to power, new book reveals (2014)
Daily Mail ^ | 11-25-2014 | CAROLINE HOWE

Posted on 05/13/2023 6:49:12 AM PDT by dynachrome

Think Liza Minnelli and Joel Gray in Carberet. Think West Hollywood, Greenwich Village and Provincetown and the Castro, known as hotbeds of homosexuality.

But they are nothing like the uninhibited urban gay sexual scene and vast homosexual subculture that flourished in Berliin under Germany's Weimar Republic.

Sexual experimentation between the same sexes and medical advances of helping genders ‘trapped within the wrong body’ in Germany more than one hundred years ago shaped our understanding of gay identity today.

The city's liberal years - before the rise of Hitler - are detailed in a new book, Gay Berlin.

The science of ‘transsexuality’ was founded in Berlin at the Institute of Sexual Science where the first male-to-female surgery was performed. The words ‘homosexual’ or ‘transvestite’ were German innovations. Male prostitution, homosexual bars and nightclubs, cabarets populated by gay men, lesbians and transsexuals flourished in a wild, incomparable sexual subculture that was exciting yet dangerous.

It was in Berlin where scientists concluded that ‘same sex love was a natural, inborn characteristic and not merely the perversion of a ‘normal’ sexual tendency’, author and scholar Robert Beachy writes in his compelling book, Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Knopf Publishers.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: germany; homos; tranny; weimar
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To: Dan in Wichita
Historians once referred to the 1890s as the “Gay 90s”. Doubt they use that description any more.

Ironically, it appropriately describes the 1990s.

The 1990s was the Golden Age of indie filmmaking, which saw the release of many sexually "edgy" films, including many gay friendly films.

It was the decade when Seinfeld popularized the term, "Not that there's anything wrong with that!" -- signalling that "polite society" no longer tolerated "homophobic" comments.

41 posted on 05/13/2023 8:23:06 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: dynachrome
This is not new news....in my Time-Life WW2 books this was noted to be an issue in Berlin.

And how it was dealt with by the Nazis.

42 posted on 05/13/2023 8:23:18 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Grampa Dave

BTTT


43 posted on 05/13/2023 8:29:57 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: 03A3

Against gender re-assignment surgery? = Hitler.

Ding ding ding. And we have a winner.


Yes, this will be the angle attempted yet if one researches and exposes the medical experiments in the camps, the same spirit of mutilation and destruction will be found.


44 posted on 05/13/2023 8:34:09 AM PDT by rephope
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To: skeeter
Perhaps the reason the Germans accepted the Nazis, or allowed them to seize power at least, was because they had become morally bereft.

Back in the 1920s you had Communist Antifa members rioting in the streets, beating up any who opposed them (sound familiar?). The liberal authorities refused to enforce the law. The middle class was afraid of communist revolution.

Finally a man emerged, a decorated war veteran who organized his own groups to fight the communists in the streets. The regular people cheered him and elected him to high office to fix the mess that Germany was descending into.

That man was named Adolf Hitler.

45 posted on 05/13/2023 8:34:10 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: dynachrome

BTW. A lot of the “women” for sale in the windows...aren’t women.


46 posted on 05/13/2023 8:37:06 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: dynachrome

Yes this about Berlin was well known. It is today reportedly seeing a substantial resurgence of the same hedonistic homosexual conduct

I personally am okay with letting adults do as they wish with their free will choices in life, so long as it is consensual of course.
I figure it’s none of my business

But they must be kept away from children!!


47 posted on 05/13/2023 8:43:00 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: dynachrome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcLUC7yj7vY&ab_channel=WarnerBros.Entertainment


48 posted on 05/13/2023 8:46:16 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: dynachrome
Think Liza Minnelli and Joel Gray in [sic] Carberet
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they are nothing like the uninhibited urban gay sexual scene and vast homosexual subculture that flourished in [sic] Berliin under Germany's Weimar Republic.

The author is an ignoramus. Cabaret WAS set in Weimar Republic Berlin.

49 posted on 05/13/2023 9:11:21 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: SauronOfMordor
Spain also was also suffering Antifa Red Terror in 1934-35. It also looked to a decorated war veteran to fight back. His name was Francisco Franco.
50 posted on 05/13/2023 9:12:34 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: dynachrome

This is not new information. Maybe it is for clueless people in the press.


51 posted on 05/13/2023 9:17:04 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: skeeter
Berlin never really warmed up to the Nazis.

It was too cosmopolitan in it's outlook and for the most part considered the Nazis, especially the Storm Troopers to be a bunch of rough necked louts and country bumpkins.

52 posted on 05/13/2023 9:25:43 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Angelino97
Franco was a fascist.
53 posted on 05/13/2023 9:26:25 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: dynachrome

And there you have it. Support child mutilation or your on Team Hitler.


54 posted on 05/13/2023 9:35:27 AM PDT by samadams2000
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To: dynachrome

This bowl of Ramen was good until the Nazis came to power


55 posted on 05/13/2023 9:38:03 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: jmacusa

No but they didn’t stop them either.

Very similar to today.


56 posted on 05/13/2023 9:41:04 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: jmacusa
Technically, Franco was a Falangist, not a Fascist. Although perhaps not even that.

Some say Franco wasn't too ideological. A conservative authoritarian and a pragmatist, who united the anti-Communist factions -- Falangist, Carlist, Monarchist, etc. -- to fight the Reds.

57 posted on 05/13/2023 9:53:54 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97
He was a totalitarian thug who was sympathetic to the Nazis and sent the Blue Division to fight in Russia.

It was only long after he was dead that it was safe to say you opposed him. I don't imagine Franco is well thought of Guernica.

58 posted on 05/13/2023 9:58:01 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: dynachrome
So widespread debauchery and moral rot makes a city prime for invasion and takeover.
Who knew?
This is why the "progressive" forces have been pushing it on us for well over a century.

59 posted on 05/13/2023 9:59:49 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: dynachrome

Not much of a Big Reveal.

Didn’t everybody who knows anything about the period sort of know this already?


60 posted on 05/13/2023 10:01:47 AM PDT by x
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