Up until 1994, Germany’s legal code criminalised same-sex relationships under ‘Section 175’, and created a climate of oppression and persecution of the LGBTQIA+ community. Due to this societal stigmatization and discrimination, many of Germany’s seniors were forced to conceal their sexual and gender identities, and never had the opportunity to live as themselves freely and without fear.
Mit Euren Spuren (With Your Traces) is an interdisciplinary photography project encompassing a long-term collaborative endeavour between six queer photographers and eight queer senior citizens. The result is an intergenerational exchange of ideas about queer life, and the distinctive experiences of various generations living within radically different legal frameworks. For over a year the creative team developed work, by using archival materials, new photography and documented personal conversations. Doing so, the project draws attention to the achievements won by the courage of earlier generations and in order to further preserve LGBTQIA+ history and triumph.
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