Ortwin Passon

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Ortwin Passon (* 1962 in Frankfurt-Höchst ) is a German gay , HIV / AIDS and bareback activist.

Life

Passon comes from a working class family. In 1983, he was the only one of three sons to acquire the general university entrance qualification at the upper secondary school in Bockenheim-Süd . He experienced his coming out in the autonomously organized gay and lesbian youth group "Pink Power" in Frankfurt am Main. It was very conflictual in the Catholic milieu and, based on an "HS report" by the sexologist Martin Dannecker, led to the army being withdrawn from service. Passon studied political science at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin . He completed a postgraduate basic course in law in 1989 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . For the historian Karl-Heinz Grundmann, Passon undertook four colonial-historical journeys to former German protected areas in the western Pacific. He has published his sexual cultural observations together with co-authors in specialist magazines and in the daily press. Passon most recently worked in a major German bank. After the death of his partner, Passon left working life in 1998.

Civil society engagement 

Passon's broad civic engagement spanned various topics and organizations, including the Technical Relief Organization, the German Lifesaving Society and the German Sports Association. Even during his studies, Passon was involved in the editorial team of the Lesbian and Gay Press Review (LSP) , the archive of which has now been transferred to the Gay Museum in Berlin. In labor jurisdiction he works as an honorary judge in the case law. Passon was involved as a board member of the gay and lesbian sports club Vorspiel . From 2000 to 2009 he published numerous socially critical articles in the sexual-political journal Gigi of the new scientific-humanitarian committee (whk) and through the gay and lesbian information and press service (SCHLIPS) in the daily newspaper Junge Welt . 

Passon received the Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2000) for his special achievements in voluntary work . A later award of the Cross of Merit on Ribbon (2005) was rejected by Passon for political reasons. In addition, Passon received numerous other social awards, including a. the letter of honor of the state of Hesse (2009) and the Berlin badge of honor for special social commitment (2016).

Positions on bareback sex

Passon dealt intensively with the legal, political and criminal aspects of unprotected sex . In particular, he positioned himself controversially against the criminalization of unprotected sexual intercourse, even with the addition of "aggravating" characteristics (as in the case of the transmission of HIV infection and any other sexually transmitted disease). He was particularly interested in the freedom of men who have unprotected anal sex ( barebacking ) with men regardless of their HIV status , as well as the rights of sex workers . In this context, Passon developed, among other things, a legal demarcation between merely unprotected sex (unsafe sex) and barbacking. He defines barebacking as “wanted, risk-conscious, consensual, unprotected sex between men, whereby it is in principle irrelevant for everyone involved whether a sexually transmitted infection is present.” In contrast, unsafe sex regularly becomes “situational, spontaneous, unreflected and possibly one-off unsafe risk behavior without intent ”(Nicole Gawron and Christine Hagenstein). As a result, barebacking necessarily goes hand in hand with “conscious and deliberate taking of risks” (Rubén Ávila).

filming

The controversial life and work of Passon became the subject of the film portrait After the Future , which premiered in 2017 at the 60th DOK Leipzig .

Publications

Scientific publications (selection)

  • Ortwin Passon & Karin Sausen: Coming-out problems due to AIDS. An empirical study. Verlag Rosa Winkel, Berlin 1986, ISBN 9783921495131
  • Ortwin Passon: Barebacking @ Sex Academy. In: Daniela Klimke & Rüdiger Lautmann (eds.): Sexuality and punishment. 11. Supplement Criminological Journal. Beltz-Juventa, Weinheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-7799-3511-7 , pp. 248-264

Legal publications (selection)

  • Ortwin Passon: No virus without morals. How right-wing parties and willing media brought about criminal law against barebackers. In: Gigi. Journal for Sexual Emancipation, 49/2007, pp. 6-10
  • Ortwin Passon: prevention business. Chasing sexual barebackers is a lot more fun when the social barebackers pay you for it. A sexual policy contribution to barebacking. In: Gigi. Journal for Sexual Emancipation, 34/2002, pp. 10-12 
  • Ortwin Passon: Now is the time to buy. An introduction to future prostitution law. A sexual policy contribution to competing draft laws in the legislative process. In: Gigi. Journal for Sexual Emancipation, 13/2001, pp. 22-23 

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ortwin Passon. Gay and lesbian information and press service, accessed on September 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Gay press review. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Dirk Horstkötter: Prelude without a happy ending. In: Focus. Hubert Burda Media, January 26, 1998, accessed March 18, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Fidel Fallera bangs three times . In: Der Spiegel . tape 18 , no. 18 , April 27, 1998, pp. 182 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 24, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Ortwin Passon: Think about it . In: Scientific and humanitarian committee (ed.): Gigi. Journal for Sexual Emancipation . No. 9/2000 . Berlin, S. 6-7 .
  6. ↑ Eike Stedefeldt: Lesbian-gay interests, identity, equality? Notes from the morgue of social movements . In: Journal for Sexual Research . No. 14/2001 , p. 29-38 .
  7. ↑ One cross too many. Cross of merit on ribbon for editor of the whk magazine "Gigi". May 31, 2005, accessed September 17, 2017 .
  8. ↑ It didn't help anything. Ortwin Passon lets the Cross of Merit go back on ribbon / whk relieved. In: Mitteilungen des whk. Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, June 1, 2005, accessed September 17, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Markus Bernhardt: Didn't help. On decency, which Heidi Knake-Werner finds "indecent": How the jW author Ortwin Passon rejected the Federal Cross of Merit on Wednesday . In: young world . Verlag May 8, Berlin June 3, 2005.
  10. ↑ A lady disappears . In: scientific-humanitarian committee (ed.): Gigi. Journal for Sexual Emancipation . No. 38/2005 . Berlin, S. 40-41 .
  11. ^ NN: The highest functionary is honored in Berlin . In: Highest circular sheet . Frankfurter Societät, Frankfurt a. M. September 7, 2011.
  12. ↑ SoVD member honored for social commitment. Senate awards badge of honor . In: Sozialverband Deutschland (Ed.): Social in view . No. 2 , 2017.
  13. ^ Ortwin Passon: Documentation: Bareback Discourse and Debate on Criminal Law. ondamaris positive gay - Living with HIV and AIDS, December 1, 2007, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Fucked by the class enemy (1-3). In: Messages from the whk. Scientific-Humanitarian Committee March / April 2008, accessed September 17, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Passon's lecture on the 4th Frankfurt Prostitution Days from 13.-15. November 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .
  16. ^ Ortwin Passon: Barebacking @ Sex Academy . In: Daniela Klimke, Rüdiger Lautmann (ed.): Sexuality and punishment. 11. Supplement Criminological Journal . Beltz-Juventa, Weinheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-7799-3511-7 , pp. 248-264 .
  17. ^ Nicole Gawron & Christine Hagenstein: Barebacking parties. An argument with homosexual HIV-negative men who actively participate in barebacking parties. Diploma thesis in social work at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. 2004.
  18. ^ Ruben Avila: Bareback sex: Breaking the rules of sexual health and the assumption of risks. In: Sexualities . tape 18 , 2015, p. 523-547 .
  19. ↑ To the future. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Passon, Ortwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, gay and AIDS activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt-Höchst