1871 – Homosexuality is criminalized throughout the German Empire by Paragraph 175 of the Reich Criminal Code.
In the course of his conquests, Napoleon exported the French Penal Code beyond France into a sequence of other states such as the Netherlands.
Lyrical inspiration escaped the songwriter until 1989, when she encountered the story of New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who, amid the repression of Germany’s antigay Paragraph 175 laws, was left broken-hearted by a male lover in his youth.
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1929 - On October 16, a Reichstag Committee votes to repeal Paragraph 175; the Nazis' rise to power prevents the implementation of the vote.