When we look back on queer life today from a hundred years in the future – what stories might we tell? And who actually gets to tell our own?

This workshop explores these and related questions together with the participants. Our starting point is what we know – and also what we don’t know – about the queer history of the past century in Germany, from the Weimar Republic to the present day. Where can we trace continuities of emancipation and resistance – but also of violence and discrimination? What language have we developed for gender and desire, and what language will we need in the future? In doing so, we also turn the lens on ourselves: What traces do we leave behind, what would our lives one day be reconstructed from, and what do we want to pass on? We warmly invite you to explore queer history with us, to connect it with your own biography, and to write it forward together, speculatively.