3 The only visible remnant of the former venue is the banner above the front door, reading, Hier ist's Richtig or "Here it's right." Only weeks earlier, however, this building had hosted the Eldorado nightclub 2-a central location for Berlin's gay and transgender communities. 1 The windows are boarded up and lined with pro- Hitler posters and Nazi flags. The brutal repression of gay people during the Nazi period largely erased German gay history from international consciousness - even from German memory.This photograph depicts two members of the Berlin Order Police standing guard outside a local Nazi Sturmabteilung ( SA) headquarters in March 1933. A German immigrant, Henry Gerber, first brought the fight for gay rights to America in the 1920s.ġ0. He took the lead in forming the Human Rights League, a consortium of gay groups.ĩ. After WWI, Friedrich Radszuweit established a network of gay publications, including the first lesbian magazine, Die Freundin. During the golden years of the Weimar Republic, gays and lesbians achieved a high degree of visibility in popular culture.Ĩ. The first sympathetic portrayal of lesbians onscreen was Leontine Sagan’s 1931 film “Mädchen in Uniform.”ħ. But the stock-market crash prevented a final vote.Ħ. In 1929, the Reichstag, Germany’s Parliament, moved toward the decriminalization of homosexuality. The first gay magazine began publication in Berlin In 1896.ĥ. In the 1880s, Leopold von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem, a Berlin police commissioner, enabled “gay Berlin” to blossom, even offering counseling to gay victims of blackmail.Ĥ. The term “homosexuality” was coined in 1869 by the Austrian writer Karl Maria Kertbeny, who opposed sodomy laws.ģ. In August of 1867, a lawyer named Karl Heinrich Ulrichs went before the Sixth Congress of German Jurists in Munich to urge the repeal of laws forbidding sex between men.Ģ.
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