Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1968. At that time, heterosexual nuclear families constituted the center of socialist society, and homosexuality was considered a peripheral issue in the GDR. Out in East Berlin —Lesbians & Gays in the GDR tells the impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbian...

Shorts from five countries (Australia, Japan, Russia, Slovenia, and United States) that all have to do with love. They are also all LGBT themed and/or directed.

The history of lesbians and gays in the former GDR (German Democratic Republic) explored through the lives of five people.