Robert Beachy
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xix, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"A detailed historical look at the surprising ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity. Long known for the friendly company of its "warm brothers" (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, even before the turn of the twentieth-century, was a place where educators, activists, and medical...