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Queer Storytelling in Visual Media

Still image from the film Different from the Others (Anders als die Andern)

Item

Title
Still image from the film Different from the Others (Anders als die Andern)
Type
Film
Creator
Richard Oswald (writer and director)
Magnus Hirschfeld (writer)
Max Fassbender (cinematographer)
Date
1919
Description
This 1919 silent film is thought to be one of the first sympathetic portrayals of homosexuality on screen. Telling the story of a gay musician and his boyfriend who are blackmailed by a acquaintance, it was made to protest German laws that criminalized homosexual relations between men.
Format
Film
Place
Germany
Publisher
Richard Oswald-Film Berlin

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