Queer people have repeatedly faced discrimination, exclusion, and persecution in various historical and social contexts. After the First World War, however, diverse queer communities with their own venues, clubs, and cultural events developed in numerous major European cities. With the rise of the National Socialists to power in 1933, increasingly systematic persecution began. Queer meeting places and organizations were...
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Queer people have repeatedly faced discrimination, exclusion, and persecution in various historical and social contexts. After the First World War, however, diverse queer communities with their own venues, clubs, and cultural events developed in numerous major European cities. With the rise of the National Socialists to power in 1933, increasingly systematic persecution began. Queer meeting places and organizations were...