Benno Gammerl, 'Curtains Up: New Venues for Gay Men and Shifting Emotional Styles Since the 1960s'

Benno Gammerl is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development's Center for the History of Emotions in Berlin. He is currently working on a research project that examines emotions in cross-cultural perspective. This paper, ‘Curtains Up! New Venues for Gay Men and Shifting Emotional Styles Since the 1960s’, was delivered as a keynote address at the ‘First International Conference on Contemporary and Historical Approaches to Emotions’ at the University of Wollongong on 5 December 2016. It investigates how spatial settings informed emotional patterns and practices by analysing the changing spaces within which male same-sex encounters have taken place in West Germany since the 1960s. The names of interview subjects have been changed.