Queer

The telling of Queer history cannot be straightforward. How could it be?

Germany’s queer history has long been neglected. And so queer life has only been debated in recent decades – even though homosexual movements fought exclusion and discrimination as far back as the German Empire. How can the history of same-sex love and gender nonconformism be told? What does German history look like from a queer perspective? And what of the notion of a straight line of emancipation, from same-sex marriage to the abolition of the German Transsexual Law, which will hopefully happen soon? Queer is the first popular non-fiction book to explore these questions via an exciting historical overview. An indispensable basis for the debates of our time.