Between World Wars, Gay Heritage Flourished In Berlin

GROSS: OK, and this is Claire Waldoff, a cabaret singer and a lesbian performer, recorded in Germany in 1932.

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CLAIRE WALDOFF: (Performing in German).

GROSS: that has been Claire Waldoff, a track picked for people by Robert Beachy, mcdougal for the brand new book “Gay Berlin, ” which will be concerning the homosexual subculture in Berlin within the 1920s and very early ’30s, right before the Nazi increase to energy. Continue reading