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As tensions between men and women escalated during WWI, sex became, as some soldiers observed, more “mechanical” and unfulfilling. One of the most interesting critics of the “mechanization” of love and sex was a German front soldier named Paul Göhre (1864-1928),

The front experience profoundly influenced the way many homosexual men imagined their masculine identities and perceived themselves in German society.

Germany saw the emergence of one of the world’s first homosexual rights movements. Scientists in imperial Germany first started to define people who desired same-sex relations, “homosexuals,” as biologically determined beings.

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The WhK’s interpretation of homosexuality was rigorously challenged by an organization founded by Adolf Brand (1874-1945) in 1903, the Gemeinschaft der Eigenen (GdE, Community of the Self-Owned). .

The military expressed contempt for homosexuals as unnatural and immoral, but Hirschfeld noted that homosexual men thrived in the military environment. One soldier reported to Hirschfeld that the war provided the opportunity for men to educate their comrades and dispel negative stereotypes.