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X-WR-CALNAME:Book Talk: States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship 
 and Democracy in Cold War Germany
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DESCRIPTION:The Hoover Institution Library & Archives invites you to a virt
 ual book talk with Samuel Clowes Huneke\, assistant professor of history a
 t George Mason University on Wednesday\, May 11\, 2022 at 12 pm PDT / 3 pm
  EDT. Huneke will discuss his first book\, States of Liberation: Gay Men b
 etween Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (University of Toron
 to Press\, 2022). This event will be moderated by Matthew Sommer\, the Bow
 man Family Professor of History at Stanford University.\n\nABSTRACT\nWhile
  the Nazi government imprisoned tens of thousands of queer people during i
 ts twelve years in power\, Germany is today lauded as a leader in LGBTQ ri
 ghts. This talk charts the country’s remarkable evolution in matters of 
 sexuality\, highlighting the brutal persecution that gay men and other que
 er groups continued to experience in the decades after World War II as wel
 l as their remarkable activist efforts during the Cold War’s later decad
 es in both democratic West Germany and communist East Germany. Drawing on 
 dozens of interviews and untapped archives\, including the Hoover Institut
 ion Archive’s Germany collections\, this talk reveals that East Germany 
 was in many ways far more progressive on queer issues than was West German
 y.
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and D
 emocracy in Cold War Germany
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 ion_gay_men_between_dictatorship_and_democracy_in_cold_war_germany_4595
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