Has anyone seen the Deutschland (83, 86, 89) series? It's about a stasi agent.
In the second season, 86, the GDR is trying to make a much money as it can, and is selling art for instance, and also blood, to the west. This did happen. There's a couple gay characters, and this is during the height of the AIDS crisis.
So the character in charge of finding all these revenue streams, and who decides to sell East German blood, is watching TV where AIDS and gay people are being discussed, and she says she's not worried about testing their blood for AIDS because they don't have gays there. In 1986.
No surprise I guess but yeah, a big budget, highly rated German TV show about the GDR is painting it now as being backwards on homosexuality. Cool.
Has anyone seen the Deutschland (83, 86, 89) series? It's about a stasi agent.
In the second season, 86, the GDR is trying to make a much money as it can, and is selling art for instance, and also blood, to the west. This did happen. There's a couple gay characters, and this is during the height of the AIDS crisis.
So the character in charge of finding all these revenue streams, and who decides to sell East German blood, is watching TV where AIDS and gay people are being discussed, and she says she's not worried about testing their blood for AIDS because they don't have gays there. In 1986.
No surprise I guess but yeah, a big budget, highly rated German TV show about the GDR is painting it now as being backwards on homosexuality. Cool.