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I‘m teaching LGBTQ World History next semester and it is enabling me to buy more books. I *need* them to prepare for class! These two arrived today, and several more are on the way to join all the others I justified purchasing recently. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Very academic (aka dry-but-interesting). If you‘re interested in gay male culture, rights, and activism in early 20th century Berlin, this book is for you. While it sets Berlin in context in relation to other European cities, it‘s very specific to time and place, so don‘t expect a broad scope. #pridemonth 🏳️‍🌈

Richly documented accounts of gay people lives during late 1800s-post WWI. Interesting information on the first Gay rights groups and the ideology behind their work. 8/10

I'm troubled by this assertion that social elites constituted Berlin's homosexual community, implying that the male prostitutes blackmailing them were something other. We are missing the analysis of why homosexual youth were sex workers and extortionists to begin with.

I was told to read this before I went to Berlin this spring, but I didn't. And then I couldn't find it in Berlin stores, at least in English anyway. Now I have it and I mean to read it, because I read queer things in June, because Pride, ironically, gives me anxiety.