![]() ![]() In each case, police action against gay men leads to drastic outcomes: the London characters decide they must go into exile the Berlin characters are caught between exile and the horrors, as yet unrealized, of the concentration camps and the New York characters respond to a police raid on the Stonewall Inn by kicking off a riot, thereby giving spectacular impetus to the gay liberation movement. The aim was to compare and contrast the effects historical circumstances have on gay subcultures and on individual gay men. The first of these has successive historical settings, in three main locations: London in the 1890s, Berlin in the 1930s, and New York City in 1969. They addressed it in two plays, As Time Goes By by Noel Greig and Drew Griffiths (1977), and Bent by Martin Sherman (1979). The gay holocaust became one of the concerns of the British theatre group Gay Sweatshop. ![]() ![]() For lack of firsthand accounts, some writers began to try to build narratives of the homosexual experience under Nazism around fictional characters. ![]()
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