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Book SynopsisThis book explores the different ways West Germans thought about and discussed being queer in the 1970s; a decade in the midst of the Cold War, sandwiched between the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1969 and the HIV/AIDS crisis in the early 1980s.
Trade ReviewGriffiths offers a comprehensive and convincing account of the gay movement of the 1970s. * Merlin Sophie Bootsmann and Andrea Rottmann, German Historical Institute London Bulletin *
Craig Griffith's history of the movement is a pathbreaking study that paints a differentiated picture especially of the student gay groups and of their debates and activism and that clarifies a few myths about the movement that still dominate public perception of the movement. * Alexander Zinn, H/Soz/Kult *
The first English-language monograph to focus on West Germany's gay liberation movement, it is part of a recent outpouring of interest in queer activist movements on both sides of the Atlantic. * Samuel Clowes Huneke, George Mason University *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The West German gay world after homosexual law reform 2: 'It is not the Homosexual who is perverse': the emergence of gay liberation 3: Gay liberation, "1968", and the alternative left 4: The pink triangle: persecution past and present 5: Thinking and feeling homosexuality Conclusion
