He analyzes the complex evolution of Nazi thought and policies toward homosexuality from open tolerance to persecution.
His current project, Long Knives, focuses on homosexuality under the Nazi regime. Beachy’s recent research focuses on the origins and development of sexual identity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. Beachy attended Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, where he received his B.A., and earned his Ph.D. Robert Beachy was born in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, and was raised in Mennonite communities in Puerto Rico and Indiana. From Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a German activist described by some as the first openly gay man, to the world of Berlin’s vast homosexual subcultures, to a major sex scandal that enraptured the daily newspapers and shook the court of Emperor William II-and on through some of the very first sex reassignment surgeries-Robert Beachy uncovers the long-forgotten events and characters that continue to shape and influence the way we think of sexuality today.
Known already in the 1850’s for the friendly company of its “warm brothers” (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, before the turn of the twentieth century, became a place where scholars, activists, and medical professionals could explore and begin to educate both themselves and Europe about new and emerging sexual identities. by the historian and author Robert Beachy, from his book Gay Berlin: Birthplace of Modern Identity, accompanied by songs of the Weimar era, performed by the international cabaret entertainer Daniel Isengart, and conversation with the editor and translator Carol Brown Janeway about how our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity was born in pre-Weimar Berlin. Deutsches Haus at NYU will present a reading on Tuesday, June 16 at 6:30 p.m.
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