Gay Berl, Before Hler Came to Power | Center Theatre Group

Contents:

• GAY TELEVISN HISTORY 12/3/77 – MAUDE: “THE GAY BAR” (FULL EPISO)
• MAUDE: THE GAY BAR (TV)
• THE GAY BAR
• GAY BERL, BEFORE HLER CAME TO POWER
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• FLASHBACK VIO: “THE GAY BAR” EPISO OF “M”

GAY TELEVISN HISTORY 12/3/77 – MAUDE: “THE GAY BAR” (FULL EPISO)

Uptight neighbor Arthur has lnched a csa to close a nearby gay bar, so M nvc him he should vis the bar before nmng .

A classic 1970s s “gay episo” and still unfortunately somewhat relevant today. The Gay Bar. [answerg Arthur's qutn about whether she approv of homosexuals].

Well, that's different, there's no such thg as gay dwarfs. Do you approve of homosexuals? [prumg what men do gay bars].

MAUDE: THE GAY BAR (TV)

[sutg the gay bar wh M]. [Sutg the gay bar]. After a few martis they'll start actg gay.

THE GAY BAR

After a few martis Ana Bryant would start actg gay. The Fathers Agast Gay Society. Fathers Agast Gay Society?

" Viv assur her that she has stcted her hband not to make trouble, but Arthur barg wh news about a new gay bar town, rantg over the "abnormaly" and sacrileg nature of homosexualy. Hubie arriv next and reveals that he and Arthur have started the "Fathers Agast Gays Society" wh the goal of havg the bar shut down orr to protect the lol youth. She adds that Arthur has never actually been si a gay bar and mands that he acpany her to the new one, sure that he will be forced to adm that gays are simply normal tri to expla the suatn to Phillip, clarg that gays are "sick, " though Phillip quickly dismantl his flimsy argument.

SUBJECT HEADING: LGBTQ+ Collectn - Comedy; Comedy; Homophobia. M | S6:E9 | The Gay Bar.

GAY BERL, BEFORE HLER CAME TO POWER

After all, Md's had enjoyed an ternatnal reputatn among the gay unrground of the 1960s & 70s, and was the very first place Paris head to the Summer of '78 landg alone San Francis om Boston.

first Wt Coast job (at the world's most wily distributed gay magaze, no ls). not robt wh fancial support for gay projects (particularly so for a non-fictn film set a lbian bar ma by a first-time director).

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THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL

Meanwhile, Arthur be obssed when he learns that a gay bar has opened up the neighborhood and he sets out to do all that he n to get closed down, somethgM is fed up wh Arthur's nservative bigotry and she pecially gets fed up when she learns the Harmons are movg wh them while their hoe is beg fumigated. Meanwhile, Arthur be obssed when he learns that a gay bar has opened up the neighborhood and he sets out to do all that he n to get closed down, somethg that M is stnchly agast. Bent director Moisés Kfman was surprised to disver that the 1920s and early 1930s, Berl was home to over 100 gay bars—far more than you’d fd any global cy today.

Why was pre-World War II Berl an epicenter of gay life, and what was that culture like? We talked wh Robert Beachy, thor of Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty and a historian at Yonsei Universy, to fd out about the liv the characters Bent—Max and his boyiend, Rudy, bar owner and drag queen Greta—might have led before Hler me to power. Homosexual acts were illegal on the books, but a batn of factors allowed a vibrant gay culture to beg to tablish self Berl as early as the late 19th century.

The police tolerated gay bars, which was one reason that Berl beme a global center for gay prostutn.

FLASHBACK VIO: “THE GAY BAR” EPISO OF “M”

Berl was also home to a burgeong gay civil rights movement led by a German-Jewish physician and sexologist, Magn Hirschfeld. Hirschfeld was at the foreont of a medil tablishment that wily accepted homosexualy as a “new sexual mory, ” said Beachy. In fact, Germans’ “rpect and regard” and fah science, said Beachy, is part of the explanatn for why they rejected tradnal relig views of homosexualy more quickly than the rt of the Wt.

After World War I, Germany almost pletely elimated s censorship laws, and a gay prs flourished Berl. Beachy said that om 1919 to 1933, over 25 separate gay, lbian, and transvte journals were published the cy. And of urse there were those 100+ gay clubs and bars, terg to a variety of tast and background—the world we know om Cabaret.

Lots of proment cultural figur were “pretty wily regnized as gay or lbian, and some s they had life or long-term partners” who were treated as spo—not people to be hidn or embarrassed about, said Beachy.