Out In East Berlin: Bizarre Opening Paragraphs Of Our Time

The former East German leader Erich Honecker loved kissing fellow communist bigwigs on the lips – a famous photo shows him locked in a “fraternal” mouth-to-mouth embrace with his Soviet counterpart, Leonoid Brezhnev.

But when it came to the reality of gay sex behind the Berlin Wall, official attitudes were markedly different.

The wholesale persecution [sic] of gays and lesbians under communism is exposed in a documentary just released in Germany. 

Out in East Berlin by the filmmakers Jochen Hicks and Andreas Strohfeldts shows how they were systematically ostracised by a totalitarian regime which pretended to the outside world that it was tolerant of homosexuality...

The Independent.

Doesn't look like you've watched the film.

And Out In East Berlin was released in February, by the way...