Cabaret and the Death of Queer Equality

Historian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Beachy" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Beachy</a> calls Berlin the birthplace of modern LGBT identity in his 2014 book <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=aO7YCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Robert+beachy+%22gay+berlin%22+wikipedia&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiBkuuevKLnAhUEa80KHXaoBM0Q6AEwAXoECAAQAg" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Gay Berlin</a>. Writing in The New Yorker, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/alex-ross" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Alex Ross</a> agrees with Beachy that the Germans first invented gay rights more than a century ago. By the mid-1920s, public attitudes in Germany towards lesbians, gay men, and transgender people had become relatively accepting. Laws punishing same-gender sex didn’t get changed, but police stopped enforcing them, like in much of the US in the latter half of the 20th century. <a href="https://medium.com/james-finn/cabaret-and-the-death-of-queer-equality-7dd1cf2589fc">Click Here</a>