Gay Rights if the Weimar Republic survives...

[oberdada]

If this has been discussed before, I couldn't find it.

The tings is, homosexuellity wasn't illegal in the Weimar Republik, and homesexuells where send to Concentration Camps by the Nazis in carfulls.

So after 1945 there was basicly nothing left of the German gay right movement.

So I am wondering, how would the international gay rights movement look if Magnus Hirschfeld http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld as important as Harvey Milk is in OTL and instead of the Cristopher Street day, Juli 6th, the founding day of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaften http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institu...alwissenschaft would be celebrated by gay activists worldwide?

[Clandango]

Depends. Would the rights be for tolerance or gender blindness in the face of the law? Would it be for Germany as a whole or for state by state, much as in the United States?

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

Originally Posted by Clandango

Depends. Would the rights be for tolerance or gender blindness in the face of the law? Would it be for Germany as a whole or for state by state, much as in the United States?

Even then such things were federal matters in Germany. It is not possible in Germany that something is illegal in one state (or city) but legal in another.

But the legality of homosexuality in Germany would have not impact in the USA or other countries with similiar laws. Why? Because homosexuality was legal in France since the French Revolution and in Italy at least since the Risorgimento (AFAIK it was never illegal there).

[oberdada]

Originally Posted by Barbarossa Rotbart

But the legality of homosexuality in Germany would have not impact in the USA or other countries with similiar laws. Why? Because homosexuality was legal in France since the French Revolution and in Italy at least since the Risorgimento (AFAIK it was never illegal there).

Interesting.

Well apparently §175 wasn't even abolished in the Weimar Republik, still there was a smal political movement.

I really don't know much about those things, this wasn't a rethorical question, I really wonder...