Samuel Clowes Huneke. <i>States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany</i>.
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Abstract
In the last few years, books about queer history in Modern Germany are abundant, with innovative studies by Laurie Marhoefer, Jennifer Evans, Andrea Rottmann, Craig Griffiths, and others. Samuel Clowes Huneke’s States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany makes an innovative addition to this thriving historiography. The book utilizes a mix of oral histories, regional police and court records, government documents, and organizational records of gay activist groups, and covers anti-gay repression and gay activism from the 1920s to the 1990s. The book troubles notions of Western capitalist superiority, common understandings of homophobia, and teleological narratives of gay liberation while considering the evolving political and organizational situation in both East and West Germany. Huneke joins a handful of recent researchers questioning the conceptual value of the term homophobia, preferring instead the study of “anti-gay animus.” Concerned that past studies struggle to identify how anti-gay sentiments changed over time, he stresses the contingencies of prejudice in order to better show how state perceptions of gay Germans shaped policy and the police enforcement of anti-gay laws. In reviewing the National Socialist revision of Paragraph 175 in 1935 that criminalized a broader range of sexual contact between men, called for harsher punishments, and resulted in crueler sentences, Huneke emphasizes how fears of imagined conspiratorial bonds between men that could threaten the state motivated the violence that destroyed the gay subculture of the Weimar era. The book also examines prejudices that shaped postwar West Germany’s conviction of over 50,000 men under the Third Reich’s version of Paragraph 175 and Paragraph 175(a). It highlights irrational fears about the seduction of youth by adult gay men and the anxiety about gay cliques that might undermine the new state, demonstrating the persistence of Nazi-era stereotypes. In this interpretation, it was the perceived instability of the new state that perpetuated these beliefs and the continuation of Paragraph 175 rather than the eugenic mindsets emphasized by past academics.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.010 |
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