Queer Activism in the Cold War 

Join the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Professor Samuel Huneke for a discussion on the history and experiences of queer people and communities in Germany during the Cold War. Professor Huneke is an associate professor of history at George Mason University. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany and A Queer Theory of the State. His talk will chart Germany's remarkable evolution in matters of sexuality, highlighting the brutal persecution that gay men and other queer groups continued to experience in the decades after World War II, as well as their remarkable liberation efforts during the Cold War’s later decades in both democratic West Germany and communist East Germany.

Partners: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies