Stefan Micheler
Heteronormativität, Homophobie und Sexualdenunziation in der deutschen Studierendenbewegung
Hetero-Normativity, Homophobia and Sexual Denunciation in the German Students‘ Movement
English abstract
The author examines how the German students‘ movement was dealing with homosexuality. Regarding this, he consults different sources: sexual-theoretical texts, journal publications, flyers, biographies and reports of personal experience. The sexual liberation, which was propagated by the students‘ movement, actually ment the sexual liberation of heterosexuality, mainly the sexuality of heterosexual males. The dogma of a "natural" heterosexuality was not questioned by the students‘ movement. So it was never questioned, that liberated sexuality could not only take place between man and woman, but also between woman and woman or man and man. Following Wilhelm Reich and different theorists of the Frankfurter Schule, homosexuality was regarded an expression of an authority-centered character, which was a willing assistant of fascism, and therefore a bad perversion to protect one’s own children from. Homosexuals were discriminated within the movement against programmatical claims, homosexuality appointed as a mechanism of sexual denunciation; the own hetero-normativity was an absolute standard and was not questioned. Also, the patriarchal image of masculinity was maintained.