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Homosexuality in Germany has been characterized, especially during the Nazi persecution and the two decades after the creation of the Germany, by discriminatory legislation and persecution. During the years 1999-2005, under the coalition government of Green and SPD Social, Germany has become a relatively tolerant country in the recognition of equal rights for homosexuals.

Moreover, despite the adverse conditions, Germany is the origin of the LGBT in the first decades of the twentieth century, years that created a thriving gay and lesbian subculture, which would have a great influence on the LGBT movements later. A perspective of German LGBT history can be seen in the Schwules Museum in Berlin, a unique institution in the world dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of LGBT history.

The Celts

Main article: Homosexuality among the ancient Celts

The first known settlers of what is now Germany were the peoples Celtic. In their customs are only the glimpses of Greeks and Romans. Given its size, it is likely that their customs were very different in different geographical areas.

Aristotle mentions in his Politics (Book 2, Chapter IX) that the Celts practiced pedophilia. In the first century BC, Diodorus is scandalized by the customs of the Celts:

Charles I of Württemberg

König Karl von Württemberg Foto

In the early 1880s, King Charles I of Württemberg (1823-1891) passed a health crisis, both physical and mental, and began to show great disregard for the government of the tiny kingdom of Württemberg. During those years, King had met and fallen in love madly Charles Woodcock, an attractive American of humble origins who lived in Germany since 1879. Woodcock's influence on the capricious king was such that by 1885, when Queen Olga wanted to get some of the king, it was through the favorite. The king's frequent absences from 1880 spent every winter in southern France, northern Italy and long periods in Friedrichshafen along the Lake Constance - he made ​​unpopular with the people and the nobility and many of his colleagues resented her relationship with "American picked up from the street", which they saw as an advantage, and American clique around him. The state of mind of the king was gradually getting worse, so that in 1887 it was considered from Berlin who was no longer able to govern. In October 1888 the king gave Woodcock the title of Freiherr von Savage and elevated him to Chamberlain. The newspapers began to be shocked by the circumstances in which he was the government of Württemberg, the first being the Münchener Neusten Nachrichten but Le Figaro even gloated in the gory details of the case. The scandal and pressure from the Hermann von Mittnacht on the king eventually led to Woodcock to withdraw in November 1888 in London. It seems that he intended to blackmail the king with various letters to ensure their own support, and finally settled for a payment of 300,000 frame, returning the villa Taubenheim in Friedrichshafen, which the king had given him, and a 80 letters.

See also

• LGBT History, History of Germany
• Homosexuality in Germany
• Homosexuality in Europe, Homosexuality in the United States
• Paragraph 175, Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany, Homophobia

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