a history of homosexuality europe between the wars

[...]... the homosexual (who offended society) In fact, the years 1869-1919 can be regarded as a major watershed in the history of homosexuality and as the foundation upon which the homosexual liberation of the 1920s was built One Scandal after Another The scandals at the end of the 19th century hold a place apart, in this history They certainly broke out in a paradoxical context While urbanization, the guarantee... with the Anglo-Saxon world A friend of Henry James, she brought Oscar Wilde and Lord Douglas to the attention of the Parisian elite They created a sensation Paradoxically, only Montesquiou and Proust avoided them, finding them decadent!) Their flamboyant homosexuality made quite an impression and created the appearance of a new tolerance Sapphic love affairs were the fashion of the day, especially... on the history of morals, changing attitudes, and in particular how our imagination has shifted over time: the history of representation, as well as the history of medicine, the law, the police, religion and, of course, political history Literary history, art history, and the history of language also add to the picture Attitudes toward sexuality can only be understood in a broad context The history of. .. English-language translation of a doctoral thesis presented to the Institute of Political Studies of Paris, under the direction of Jean-Pierre Azộma, entitled, Research on Homosexuality in France, England and Germany from the beginning of the 1920s to the end of the 1930s, based on information from partisan, police, legal, medical and literary sources January 1998. The question of language is at the heart of. .. 1914 It was a symbol of the decadence of the olden days, which would have to be eliminated if one wanted to make England a masculine and victorious nation One of the broad topics in propaganda was the fight against pacifists, and grafted onto that theme one can find exhortations against sexual deviance, in particular homosexuality, considered a German weakness This was a direct consequence of the Eulenburg... World War, the very notion of a homosexual golden age had disappeared and the fate of homosexuals in the concentration camps had become taboo Twenty years of homosexual life had been wiped away In fact, until very recently, the history of homosexuality during the inter-war period was almost completely blacked out, and the focus was placed instead on the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as the. .. public and the press.20 Oscar Wildes trial, while it was unique in terms of the prominence of the individual in question and the scandal it caused, is just one of many examples of the outbursts of moral panic which haunted Victorian England Wildes sentence was the consummation of the victory of the Puritan party and it crystallized in the public view the image of the homosexual as a corrupter of youth, a. .. lhomosexualitộ en Allemagne [1907], Lille, Cahiers GaiKitsch-Camp, 1992, 231 pages 19 A History of Homosexuality in Europe The homosexual, a traitor to the fatherland War reveals a countrys weaknesses After 1914, each nation pulled together its forces to confront the threat In Germany, England and France, the notion of holy unity was invoked to catalyze the coming together around national values The war left... Currently, the post-war period is starting to be analyzed, but the earlier years are still largely ignored For any historian of homosexuality, finding sources remains the principal problem Medical, literary, autobiographical, and propagandistic sources are fairly abundant and easy to find, even though a certain number of German works dealing with homosexuality and published between the two wars have disappeared... against nature.34 The trial was an enormous scandal and Billing was never seen as the defendant He used the hearings as a soapbox to rail against homosexuality and posed as an honest patriot defending his country against those who were being led astray by Germany He was acquitted.35 The hysteria over homosexuality shows the extent to which it could be regarded as pernicious and hazardous for the nation . was inaugurated under the Nazi regime in Germany. After the Second World War, the very notion of a homosexual golden age had disappeared and the fate of homo- sexuals in the concentration camps. med- icine, the law, the police, religion and, of course, political history. Literary history, art history, and the history of language also add to the picture. Attitudes toward sexuality can only. assessment of homosexuality in Great Britain. In Germany, as we have said, the younger generations tried to build a complete history of German homosexuality, so as to clarify the Weimar apogee and the