Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

Name: Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1 hr 34 min
Rating: 100
Cast: Peter Bausdorf, Bettina Dziggel, Michael Eggert, Marinka Körzendörfer, Jürgen Litfin

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100

Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

StarringPeter BausdorfBettina DziggelMichael Eggert

DirectorsAndreas StrohfeldtJochen Hick

WritersJochen Hick

NR 1 hr 34 minDocumentary

Plot

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.

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