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There had been some scandals involving the German Army and the apparent suicide, in , of industrialist Friedrich Alfred Krupp after proof of his dalliance with boys on the Isle of Capri became public. But it was the so-called Eulenburg Affair that truly shocked Germany and the world, and that had the more serious consequences. In the course of the highly publicized proceedings, at which the renowned sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld testified, concepts of homosexuality and gay identity would become issues of public discussion for the first time. It could be argued that the modern concept of gay identity was born during the Eulenburg Affair.

Below are the words that compose our German Gay Dictionary that we will expand in new editions. But first, some information about aspects of this dictionary that we think are relevant. At first, the search for words in the German language to name fags was an enigma. We only found the word Schwul and its derivatives and Warmer Bruder.

Former federal prosecutor Manfred Bruns called the abolition of Paragraph a "sheer relief. The day finally came on June 11, , when the so-called "gay paragraph," which dated back to the 19th century, was struck from the statute book. This put an end to the legal persecution of male homosexuals in Germany, which had lasted more than a century. Paragraph was introduced when the German Empire was founded in

Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany's Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world's first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized - however misleadingly - in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and the musical Cabaret , Weimar's freedoms have become a touchstone for the politics of sexual emancipation. Yet, as Laurie Marhoefer shows in Sex and Weimar Republic , those sexual freedoms were only obtained at the expense of a minority who were deemed sexually disordered.