The GDR gay rights movement of the 1970s and 1980s was always both East German and German-German. The actors in the GDR performed a balancing act between adaptation and rejection, and between different feelings of belonging, e.g., between the GDR and a transnational movement, and between state and church. Teresa Tammer goes beyond the Wall to investigate East Germans' self-assertion strategies as well as their networks and transfers.

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Teresa Tammer, Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster, Germany.