Скачать или смотреть Gay History Book Club - Bent by Martin Sherman - EDITED from live discussion with Dr. Jake Newsome

This is a cleaned up version of the LIVE CHAT for the Gay History Book Club which took place on January 20, 2025. Patrick and Raj welcomed Dr. Jake Newsome, director of the Pink Triangle Legacies Project and author of "Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust" to discuss BENT by Martin Sherman.

In this discussion (of both the book/script and the movie), learn the actual history of the treatment of the LGBTQ community by the Nazis during WWII. Dr. Newsome goes into some great historical details of:
Gay life in Berlin in the 1930s 08:20
Paragraph 175 - its origin in 1871 and its revision by the Nazis in 1935 11:05
Night of the Long Knives 13:55
the marking system of uniforms within concentration camps and the hierarchy which developed as a result 25:40
Future of Paragraph 175 after 1945 33:30

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