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Fun fact: although the article is about the German queer movement, there’s a nice little Canadian moment. Evans shows how the German gay, lesbian, trans* movement in Germany was also surprisingly transnational, even during the Cold War. She traces the movements of American scholar James Steakley who lived in Toronto for a year writing for articles for the Body Politic before traveling to East and West Berlin where he was part of gay rights movements on either side of the Berlin Wall.
A short excerpt is posted below with the full article available in German online.
“There is a lot of energy spent right now arguing that leftists, feminists, trans and queer of colour activists are silencing debate. A more productive use of our time would be to recall that queer history was always a multidimensional history of activism and alliances.”