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Just finished reading A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood…wtf???

“Stalin made all homosexual acts punishable by heavy prison sentences, agreeing with the Nazis in denouncing homosexuality as treason to the state. The only difference was that the Nazis called it ‘sexual Bolshevism’ the Communists 'Fascist perversion.’" 

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Christopher and His Kind (1976) written by Christopher Isherwood. Published in 1976, Isherwood has said that he wrote Christopher and His Kind because he felt he had a moral obligation to renounce the self censorship that marked his early novels, specifically the excision of any hint of his homosexuality. Accordingly, in Christopher and His Kind, he recounts his experiences as a young gay expatriate enticed by the liberated atmosphere of Weimar Berlin into a quest for sexual and intellectual emancipation.

Christopher Isherwood at the window of his Berlin apartment, 1933, by Humphrey Spender

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George Platt Lynes (American, 1907–1955), Christopher Isherwood, c.1935

Christopher Isherwood (ca. 1935), photo by George Platt Llynes

'I am camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.' GOODBYE TO BERLIN