From gay and lesbian political activism during the 1960s and 70s through the 1980s queer movement inspired by the AIDS crisis to the recent push towards normalization for same-sex couples via registered partnerships and adoption rights, LGBT issues have been moving steadily into the political and cultural mainstream of the German-speaking lands. A host of German LGBT culture has emerged in recent years, including films and literary works. Queerness has also taken hold within the academy of the German-speaking lands. The present volume includes contributions exploring the representation and reality of LGBT individuals and issues in historical and contemporary German-speaking culture. Leanne Dawson is Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.

Introduction - Leanne Dawson
PART I. QUEER HISTORIES AND ARCHIVES
From Brooklyn to Berlin: Queer Temporality, In/Visibility, and the Politics of Lesbian Archives - Leanne Dawson
"Die zarte Haut einer schönen Frau": Fashioning Femininities in Weimar Germany's Lesbian Periodicals - Cyd Sturgess
Based on a True Story: Tracking What Is Queer about Queer German Documentary - Kyle Frackman
PART II. QUEERING THE OTHER
The Culture of Faces: Reading Physiognomical Relations in Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig - John L. Plews
Seeing the Human in the (Queer) Migrant in Jenny Erpenbeck's Gehen, Ging, Gegangen and Terézia Mora's Alle Tage - Nick Courtman
The Transgressive Representations of Gender and Queerness in Fatih Akin's Auf der anderen Seite - Sarra Kassem
PART III. QUEERING NORMATIVITY
Bitter Tears and Pretty Excess in Fassbinder's Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant and Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss - Lauren Pilcher
Mothers, Masculinities, and Queer Potentials: Jonathan Franzen's Rereading of Thomas Brussig and Phillip Roth - Gary Schmidt