A Literature of "Truth": Writing by Gay Men in East Germany

In the last few years of its existence, the East German socialist state had initiated a campaign of tolerance and integration of its homosexuals into socialist society that seemed to cast the GDR in a more progressive light than West Germany. Breaking with the taboos of the previous era, gay literar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Denis M. Sweet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 1998-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol22/iss1/10