(Applause Books). Martin Sherman's worldwide hit play Bent took
London by storm in 1979 when it was first performed by the Royal
Court Theatre, with Ian McKellen as Max (a character written with
the actor in mind). The play itself caused an uproar. "It educated
the world," Sherman explains. "People knew about how the Third
Reich treated Jews and, to some extent, gypsies and political
prisoners. But very little had come out about their treatment of
homosexuals." Gays were arrested and interned at work camps prior
to the genocide of Jews, gypsies, and handicapped, and continued to
be imprisoned even after the fall of the Third Reich and liberation
of the camps. The play Bent highlights the reason why - a largely
ignored German law, Paragraph 175, making homosexuality a criminal
offense, which Hitler reactivated and strengthened during his rise
to power.
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