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I feel like I know these people. At a loss on how to date this but, from the clothes and those amazing wigs, will guess this private Halloween bash occurred sometime in the late 1960s-1970s.
I love "estate photos," those boxes and albums of mysterious photos left behind by the dead. I particularly love them when the original owners were kinky or otherwise sexually liberated and took candid photos for their private delectation. This set seems to be from the 1960s (?), and shows one hell of a HOT leather man and his club patch.
After yesterday's themed show about the libertine sub-culture in 1920s-30s Berlin, a FaceBook friend asked how did thing change so suddenly? The answer is the brutal new enforcement of Paragraph 175, a 19th century German law which made homosexuality a crime. Although it had been on the books since 1894, when the Nazis came to power, it became their excuse to persecute and annihilate homosexuals, transpeople, and everyone they consider depraved.
In a few years, the Nazis had either deported non-conformists or driven them underground. Those who had money fled Germany. The rest kept their heads down and prayed no one would betray them to the Gestapo. That was what life in Berlin became for people like us 80 years ago.
Ironically, the very depravity that the Nazis so publically abhorred was like a ride in Disney Land compared to the depravities they committed. Here, from "The Night Porter," starring a young Charlotte Rampling and a still-beautiful Dirk Bogarde, one of the most perverse scenes in cinema history, an unflinching depiction of the violent sadomasochism of the Nazi mind. (BTW, Ramping was a grown woman when she made the movie, but her character was supposed to be Bogarde's 14 year old Jewish concentration camp whore.)
Two photos left over from yesterday's show. First, a group of transwomen shot at the Eldorado Night Club on Motzstraße. The Nazis shut the club down in 1933.
Fascinating image of another member of 1920s Berlin's trans society.
Ending today's voyage into early 20th century German sexual freedom with images of women who lit up the nights in the libertine sub-culture of 1920s Berlin.
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