West Berlin homosexual action

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HAW Pentecost demonstration on June 9, 1973

The Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin (HAW) was the first organization of the newer German gay movement.

history

The HAW was founded on August 15, 1971 . This happened as a result of the screening of the film Not the homosexual is perverse, but the situation in which he lives at the Berlin Film Festival. The approx. 40 (exclusively male) founding members were mainly students who felt they belonged to the socialist left, and some of them belonged to organizations such as the SEW , the GIM or the KPD / AO .

One focus of the activities of the HAW was the fight for the deletion of § 175 without replacement . This issue has been placed in the context of a more general struggle to overcome patriarchy and capitalism and numerous demonstrations have been carried out. From 1973 and 1975 the HAW organized an annual Whitsun meeting, to which gay groups from other cities were invited and at which the aims of the HAW were advertised with information stands and demonstrations.

In the spring of 1972, a women's group was formed within the HAW , among others by Gisela Necker , from which both the Lesbian Spring Meeting and the Lesbian Action Center West Berlin emerged in 1975 . From around the middle of 1977 the HAW increasingly lost its influence. One of the main reasons for this was quarrels between members and supporters of left-wing organizations on the one hand and the so-called "feminist" wing on the other. Disagreements had already arisen in the context of the so-called queer dispute. The HAW acted as the organizer of the SchwuZ gay center in Kulmer Strasse , later Hasenheide , until the mid-1990s . During the years of the West Berlin squatters' movement , there were also close contacts and personal overlaps with the occupied Tuntenhaus at Bülowstrasse 55. For financial reasons, the association HAW eV was deleted from the association register on August 25, 1999 to avoid over-indebtedness.

Data

  • August 15, 1971: spontaneous meeting of around 50 people in the "Arsenal" cinema
  • November 21, 1971: Founding meeting in the "Hand Drugstore" named "Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin"
  • April 1, 1974: Move to Kulmer Straße 20a (2nd and 4th floors) under the name "Center for Therapeutic Self-Help"
  • June 2, 1976: Foundation of the "Homosexual Action West-Berlin eV" association, entered in the register of associations on August 20, 1976.
  • June 1977: First mention of the name "SchwuZ", "SchwulenZentrum" for the club rooms of the HAW
  • December 31, 1986: Move to Hasenheide 54 (4th floor)
  • February 18, 1995: Moving into Mehringdamm 61 (KG)
  • August 25, 1999: HAW eV deleted from the register of associations

See also

literature

  • Detlef Grumbach (ed.): The left and the vice. Gay emancipation and left prejudice . Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-928983-30-X .
  • Patrick Henze (Patsy l'Amour laLove): "Out of the hatches - Into the streets!" - Gay politics in the homosexual campaign West Berlin from 1971 to 1976. Master of Arts thesis at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Presented on August 13, 2012. Available in the library of the Schwules Museum *.
  • Patrick Henze (Patsy l'Amour laLove): " Showing the gap between politics and being gay". Activism and debates in the homosexual campaign in West Berlin between 1971 and June 1973. In: Binder, Beate: Gender - Sexuality. Explorations in fields of political practice. Berliner Blätter SH 62/2013. Pp. 13-27. ISBN 978-3-938714-27-0 .
  • Andreas Pretzel & Volker Weiß (eds.): Pink radicals. The gay movement of the 1970s. Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3863001230 .
  • Eike Stedefeldt: Gay power. Or: emancipation from emancipation. Elefanten Press Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-88520-691-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Patsy l'Amour laLove in an interview with Martin Reichert: "Desire is not racist". www.taz.de, June 23, 2018, accessed June 25, 2018 .