“Hambach Awakening” – Pilot episode of a limited series on the life and times of Karl Heinrichs Ulrichs – a German gay rights pioneer and scholar who wrote the first queer theory known to the LGBTQ movement, published the first gay magazine, and used his privilege and law degree to go into battle for those who were being prosecuted for their sexuality, as well as take on the conservative Prussian government’s hateful homophobic sodomy laws, with the conviction that every human being has a right to live their truth and pursue their happiness in love and life. His efforts would get him thrown in prison twice, and ultimately exiled from his beloved Germany.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Geoff: Shawn Devlin
Karl; Geoff Mays
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