Proud & Political Gay Cabaret in the Weimar Era
by Bruce-Michael Gelbert

Historians have come to recognize that, along with the annihilation of six million Jews during the Holocaust, the Nazis also censored music and art, which they labeled "decadent," by Jews and others, which is now being examined. Thanks to the research and prompting of gay historians, there has also been acknowledgement that a gay political and artistic community thrived in the Weimar Republic, its members also sent to concentration camps, where many perished, and its art suppressed. Cabaret scholar Alan Lareau collected some of the work created by gay composers, lyricists, and singers, performed in the cabarets of Berlin at the time, in "Lavender