Denn wir sind alle and'rer Welten Kind

[sovay]

For Leap Day, rushthatspeaks made a point of asking me to marry him, to which the answer was—as always—always.

Please enjoy this now more than hundred-year-old queer anthem. I don't know how I can keep forgetting that Ute Lemper was Ceres in Prospero's Books (1991).

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[moon_custafer]

“wir lieben nur die lila Nacht, die schwül ist” — was going to ask if this is the origin of schwul/schwuler as the German equivalent of the term “gay,” but if Wiktionary is right about the term already having been in use in the 19th century, then the song was probably punning.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schwul#German

[sovay]

— was going to ask if this is the origin of schwul/schwuler as the German equivalent of the term “gay,” but if Wiktionary is right about the term already having been in use in the 19th century, then the song was probably punning.

I bet so. A queer anthem should double-speak at least a little.