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Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

Documentary
94 mins
10.0
2013

Description

Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1968. At that time, heterosexual nuclear families constituted the center of socialist society, and homosexuality was considered a peripheral issue in the GDR. Out in East Berlin —Lesbians & Gays in the GDR tells the impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbians in the GDR, from the post WWII years until the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Casts:

Peter Bausdorf
Bettina Dziggel
Michael Eggert
Andreas Fux
Marinka Körzendörfer
Jürgen Litfin
Marina Krug
Klaus Laabs

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