Osoby nieheteronormatywne i ich życie prywatne oraz społeczne w Republice Weimarskiej

Abstrakt

The purpose of the article is to present the everyday life of non-heteronormative people living in the Weimar Republic. Despite the devastation of the country due to World War I, the years of 1919–1933 become a period of intense struggle for emancipation for non-heterosexual people. It was then that the first emancipation movement for homosexuals was created and developed. At that time, Magnus Hirschfeld became one of the leading precursors of activities for non-heterosexual people on the German social and political scene. In connection with the actions taken, non-heterosexual people began to be more and more visible in the public space of the Weimar Republic. This situation indicates certain legal freedoms and loosening social norms in Germany, which would lead to such changes and allow non-heterosexual people to move more freely in the society of the Weimar Republic. Simultaneously, the creation of movements for non-heterosexual people and the emergence of activists working intensively for them indicates that there was a demand for it in Germany. In relation to these emerging transformations, the question arises how the life of non-heteronormative people in German society changed and shaped in the years 1919–1933? In this article, I will make an effort to present the realities of the life of the subculture of sexual minorities on many different levels, such as social activities and organizations aimed at non-heterosexual people, or the presence of non-heteronormative people in the art and culture of Weimar Republic. The article was based on source texts, including press, as well as on the basis of contemporary research on non-heterosexual people in the Weimar Republic.