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The "Eulenberg Affair," a series of media scandals about homosexual behavior at the highest levels of the German Imperial court, dragged on in the press for years as it made and broke careers in journalism, sexology, and the court while helping define both Imperial Germany\u2019s relationship to masculinity and the emerging homosexual emancipation movements. Plus drag ballet, Wagnerists, extremely racist paintings, songs about roses, and moustaches with names.\n----more----\nSOURCES:\nSOURCES:\nRobert Beachy, Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity (New York: Vintage, 2014)\nMiranda Carter, \u201cWhat Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?,\u201d The New Yorker, June 6, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-happens-when-a-bad-tempered-distractible-doofus-runs-an-empire\nNorman Domeier, \u201cThe Homosexual Scare and the Masculinization of German Politics before World War I,\u201d Central European History 47, no. 4 (2014): 737\u201359\nNorman Domeier, \u201cScandal & Science \u2013 The Power of Sexology in the Eulenburg Affair, 1906-1909,\u201d n.d., http://www.hist.ceu.hu/conferences/graceh/abstracts/domeier_norman.pdf\nMartin B. Duberman, Jews, Queers, Germans: A Novel/History, Seven Stories Press first edition (New York\u202f; Oakland: Seven Stories Press, 2017)\nJohn C. G. R\xf6hl, The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany, trans. Terence F. Cole, 1st ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1994)\nAlex Ross, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (New York: Picador Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021)\nKlaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies, Theory and History of Literature, v. 22-23 (Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1987).\nOur intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner. \nThe 15-second clip of "Monatsrose" by Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg is sung by tenor Marcel Wittrisch with orchestra and organ conducted by Bruno Seidler-Winkler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq2XXG8JRNU