A review by zefrog
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy

4.0

Beyond the evocation of late 19th/early 20th century Berlin, this is first and foremost a history of the emergence of homosexuality as an identity and the true beginnings of the LGBT rights movement, decades before Stonewall. A rather fascinating and highly informative read in the company of the unrecognised giants (on whose shoulders we most definitely stand) that are Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Magnus Hirshfeld.