Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

Actors:  Peter Bausdorf, Bettina Dziggel, Michael Eggert, Andreas Fux, Marinka Körzendörfer, Jürgen Litfin Directors:  Andreas Strohfeldt, Jochen Hick

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...