LGBT In Germany
Contemporary Germany has been one of the more progressive European nations on the issue of LGBT rights. The German Empire and Nazi Germany each reversed the previously tolerant policies using § 175 of the German Criminal Code, with gays being one of the victim groups of the Holocaust. Especially during the Weimar Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany, activists campaigned for its repeal. The laws were attenuated in 1950, repealed in practice in East Germany in 1968 and in full in a reunified Germany in 1994. However, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Germany may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.
Germany presently provides legal recognition for same-sex unions in the form of registered partnerships, and in recent times an increasingly large majority of the German people have expressed their support for legal recognition for same-sex marriage.
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“If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)