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

Did not finish book. Stopped at 69%.
This is a very interesting and important text documenting LGBT identities (and public policy regarding them) in Weimar Berlin. I am disappointed to have quit the book only 40 pages from completion, but the conflation of (modern) gay and transgender identities with pedophilia is more than I can stomach. I understand the historic reasons for this fusion of unrelated identities and behaviors - notably, that the Weimar legal system understood these behaviors to be the same - but that does not make it palatable or even manageable as a 21st century gay man who finds pedophilia to be one of the most morally abhorrent behaviors in our society. 
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