The first East German film to tackle homosexuality & queer nightlife was also the last

Image Credit: ‘Coming Out,’ Altered Innocence

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” 

Welcome to our final entry in Pride Around The World, our June 2025 series where we’ve explored queer movies from all over the globe and discussed the impact that they had in their own cultures, and examined how their depictions of queer characters and stories differ from more Western and English-leaning preconceptions and tropes.

For the first three movies in the series, we’ve taken a look at landmark films within a broader culture (the first openly queer film in West Africa with Dakan), how other nations dealt with queer issues that we’ve become too familiar with in English-language media (the AIDS crisis in Argentina with A Year Without Love),

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