“Unfortunately neither was aware of the other’s poetic accomplishments. It was almost as if two transatlantic ocean liners had passed each other without signals in the black of night.”īut with each gay cultural peak there is always a puncturing moment-the rise of Nazism and the destruction of Berlin’s fluid, artistic culture its most malevolent example. That destructive, puncturing moment is repeated throughout the twentieth century. Years before, the punitive trial of Oscar Wilde crystallized the modern fear of the homosexual for the public.
