Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR (2013)

overview : Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1968. At that time, heterosexual nuclear families constituted the center of socialist society, and homosexuality was considered a peripheral issue in the GDR. Out in East Berlin —Lesbians & Gays in the GDR tells the impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbians in the GDR, from the post WWII years until the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Release Date : Oct 31, 2013

Runtime : 1h 34m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : Galeria Alaska Productions

Countries : Germany

Keywords : east germany, lgbt