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- Title
Belonging in Black and White: Race, Photography, and the Allure of Heimat in West German Gay Magazines from the 1950s.
- Authors
BOOVY, BRADLEY
- Abstract
Physique photography played an important role in conditioning erotic subjectivity for gay male readers of West Germany's 1950s homophile magazines. To date, scholars of the period have focused on the content of these magazines and their role in the emergence of the postwar gay scene (Whisnant) but have yet to carefully consider the medium itself as a critical component in the creation of same-sex subjectivities. By focusing on layout techniques such as juxtaposition, this article examines the ways in which the magazine Der Weg zu Freundschaft und Toleranz created erotically suggestive narratives between photos that circumvented increasingly strict censorship laws in the early Federal Republic while at the same time conflating the gay male viewing subject with whiteness in alignment with dominant discourses of Heimat and national belonging.
- Subjects
GERMANY; GAY periodicals; GAY people; EROTIC photography; CENSORSHIP
- Publication
Seminar -- A Journal of Germanic Studies, 2018, Vol 54, Issue 4, p428
- ISSN
0037-1939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/seminar.54.4.003