Weimar Berlin Was Hotbed of Homosexualism, Male Prostitution; Home of First Male-to-Female ‘Surgery’
November 25, 2014
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.
Weimar Berlin Was Hotbed of Homosexualism, Male Prostitution; Home of First Male-to-Female ‘Surgery’
Source: RI