Sweet D M
Department of German, Russian and East Asian Languages and Literatures, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 04240, USA. dsweet/abacus.bates.edu
J Homosex. 1995;29(4):351-67. doi: 10.1300/J082v29n04_04.
Organized groups of homosexuals began forming in the East German Protestant Church beginning in 1982. They constituted a rapidly spreading nucleus for a lesbian and gay emancipation movement. As such, they were viewed with suspicion by the state security apparatus which heavily infiltrated them. As an attempt to out maneuver the church groups and raise political capital, the East German state by the last years of its existence in the late eighties embarked on a program of tolerance and integration of homosexuals into socialist society.
1982年起，东德新教教会中开始出现有组织的同性恋群体。他们构成了女同性恋者和男同性恋者解放运动迅速蔓延的核心力量。正因如此，他们受到了国家安全机构的怀疑，该机构对他们进行了大量渗透。作为一种试图智取教会团体并获取政治资本的手段，东德在80年代末其存在的最后几年里，开始实施一项将同性恋者宽容并融入社会主义社会的计划。
