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Tema / THEME<br />

homofiliuri moZraobis dasawyisi<br />

geebis uflebebisaTvis brZolis pionerad seqsualuri<br />

mecnierebaTa institutis erT-erTi damaarsebeli<br />

magnus hirSfeldi miiCneva. 1886 wels gamoqveynebul<br />

eseSi “safo da sokrate”, hirSfeldi pirvelad Seexo<br />

homoseqsualobas, rogorc adamianis seqsualobis erTerT<br />

gamovlinebas da amdenad, mecnieruli kvlevis sagans.<br />

TanamoazreebTan erTad, 1887 wels hirSfeldi<br />

qmnis “samecniero-humanitarul komitets”, romelic<br />

geebis uflebaTadamcveli pirveli organizaciaa is<strong>to</strong>riaSi.<br />

farTo saganmanaTleblo muSaobis garda,<br />

komitetis erT-erT mTavar mizans `175 paragrafis~ 1<br />

gauqmeba warmoadgenda. hirSfeldis peticia raixstagma<br />

misi gamoqveynebidan mxolod 25 wlis gasvlis Semdeg,<br />

1922 wels miiRo gansaxilvelad, Tumca, uari Tqva<br />

kanonSi saTanado cvlilebebis Setanaze.<br />

arsebuli kanonis miuxedavad, im periodisaTvis<br />

vaimaris respublikaSi gei sazogadoeba sakmaod Tavisuflad<br />

grZnobda Tavs. informacia lgbt sazogadoebis<br />

Sesaxeb Tavisuflad vrceldeboda presis meSveobiT.<br />

xelisuflebaSi nacistebis mosvlamde, berlini<br />

evropis gei dedaqalaqis reputaciiT sargeblobda.<br />

ganviTarebis TvalsazrisiT, es periodi mniSvnelovani<br />

iyo lesbosuri subkulturisTvisac.<br />

pirvel msoflio omSi damarcxebis Semdeg, germaniis<br />

politikuri speqtri mkveTrad polarizebuli gaxda.<br />

liberalebma, romelTac ar gaaCndaT qveynis krizisidan<br />

gamoyvanis myari gegma, marcxi ganicades. qveynis<br />

saTaveSi nacistebi movidnen.<br />

samwuxarod, germania erTaderTi qveyana ar aRmoCnda<br />

evropaSi, sadac <strong>to</strong>talitarulma ideologiam gaimarjva.<br />

<strong>to</strong>talitaruli reJimebisaTvis damaxasiaTebeli<br />

damokidebuleba “gansxvavebulobis” mimarT, mravali<br />

adamianisaTvis tragikuli aRmoCnda. germaniasa da sab-<br />

WoTa kavSirSi ki homoseqsualTa devna-Seviwrovebam<br />

upreceden<strong>to</strong> masStabebi miiRo. 2 meore msoflio omis<br />

dasasruls homoseqsualebi erT-erT yvelaze uuflebo,<br />

mowyvlad socialur jgufs warmoadgendnen.<br />

meore msoflio omidan s<strong>to</strong>unvolamde<br />

meore msoflio omis Semdgomi periodi dasavluri<br />

civilizaciis politikursa da samarTlebriv modernizaciis<br />

procesSi axali eris dasawyisad SeiZleba<br />

CaiTvalos. civilizebulma sazogadoebam kargad<br />

gaacnobiera, Tu ras uqadis msoflios antiliberalizmi.<br />

gaeros wesdebaSi gacxadebuli adamianis uflebebi,<br />

adamianis pirovnuli Rirseba da faseuloba, qa-<br />

and Socrates”. Together with a group of like-minded<br />

people, he established the Scientific Humanitarian<br />

Committee, the first ever gay rights organization in<br />

world his<strong>to</strong>ry, in 1887. Aside from its broad scholarly<br />

activity, one of the main aims of the committee was<br />

<strong>to</strong> achieve the repeal of “Paragraph 175” 1 . Hirschfeld<br />

published a relevant appeal <strong>to</strong> the Reichstag in 1897,<br />

though it was accepted for consideration only 25<br />

years later, in 1922. <strong>The</strong> legislative body then refused<br />

<strong>to</strong> enter changes in<strong>to</strong> the law.<br />

In spite of this discrimina<strong>to</strong>ry provision, the gay community<br />

in Weimar Germany felt relatively at ease. Information<br />

about gay issues was freely disseminated through the press<br />

and, until the Nazis came <strong>to</strong> power, Berlin enjoyed the reputation<br />

of Europe’s most gay-friendly city. This period was also<br />

signifi cant in terms of the development of a lesbian subculture.<br />

After suff ering defeat in World War I, the German political<br />

spectrum became sharply polarized. <strong>The</strong> liberals, who did<br />

not have a clear plan for delivering the country from crisis,<br />

were defeated and the Nazis rose <strong>to</strong> power.<br />

Unfortunately, Germany was not the only country where<br />

<strong>to</strong>talitarian ideology won out. Totalitarianism’s traditionally<br />

hostile attitude <strong>to</strong>wards those who are “diff erent” had a devastating<br />

and tragic impact on many people. Oppression and<br />

persecution of LGBT people reached unprecedented levels<br />

in Germany and the Soviet Union. 2 By the end of World War<br />

II, homosexuals were one of the most repressed and vulnerable<br />

social groups in Europe.<br />

FROM WORLD WAR II TO STONEWALL<br />

<strong>The</strong> post-World War II period is widely regarded as<br />

the beginning of a new era in the political and legal<br />

modernization of Western civilization. Civilized soci-<br />

diana devisi, msvleloba Taims squerze, niu iorki, 1969<br />

Diana Davies, march on Times Square, New York City, 1969

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