1 Dance on a Volcano: Homosexuality from the German Empire to Zero Hour

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. A Note on Place Names xv
6. Terms and Abbreviations xvii
7. Maps 1
8. Introduction 3
9. 1 Dance on a Volcano: Homosexuality from the German Empire to Zero Hour 22
10. 2 Paranoid Republic: §175 and West Germany’s Persecution of Gay Men 39
11. 3 Equivocal Animus: Homosexuality and Socialism in East Germany 63
12. 4 Ever Disdained, Ever Despised: The Crooked Path of Emancipation in West Germany 81
13. 5 Gay Spies in Cold War Germany 104
14. 6 Three Million Votes: Gay Citizenship and Power in West Germany 118
15. 7 Into the Labyrinth: When Gay Activists Met the Socialist State 142
16. 8 “I’m Not the Chancellor of the Gays”: Homosexual Politics in 1980s West Germany 165
17. 9 A Golden Age in the Grey Republic: Liberation and the Stasi in East Germany 189
18. Epilogue 226
19. Appendices 237
20. Notes 245
21. Bibliography 307
22. Index 343
23. GERMAN AND EUROPEAN STUDIES 359