On the Ground of Nature: Sexuality and Respectability in 's Stories.

[] was a popular gay magazine during Germany's Weimar Republic. Unlike other gay magazines which preceded it, 's mission was to support a mass movement for homosexual emancipation aimed at respectability and rights. This study examines how the stories about nature - particularly the stories - which were published in , supported the magazine's efforts at presenting homosexuality in a way that would be acceptable to the Weimar public. It argues that these stories drew from the legacy of the , as well as the conflicting movements of Adolf Brand and Magnus Hirschfeld, to formulate a kind of homosexuality that was connected to nature, steeped in Germany's literary tradition, and deeply commited to values such as duty and commitment to one's fellow man. This study problematizes these efforts by examining how they celebrated a specific kind of "respectable" homosexuality at the expense of other kinds of queerness.