{"id":13861,"date":"2026-09-07T09:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qwien.at\/?p=13861"},"modified":"2026-10-18T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:09:39","slug":"evidence-of-indecency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qwien.at\/en\/evidence-of-indecency\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence of Indecency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row section_type=&#8221;container-width&#8221; padding_top_multiplier=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom_multiplier=&#8221;4x&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; column_sticky=&#8221;yes&#8221; column_sticky_offset=&#8221;150&#8243;]<div class=\"grve-element grve-image grve-align-center\">\r\n\t<div class=\"grve-image-item\">\r\n\t\t\r\n\r\n<div class=\"grve-image-wrapper grve-no-effect\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"grve-thumbnail-wrapper\"  style=\"width: 1808px;\"><div class=\"grve-thumbnail\"  style=\"padding-top: 141.593%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1808\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Plakat_Qwien_Beweismittel-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Plakat_Qwien_Beweismittel-scaled.jpg 1x,https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Plakat_Qwien_Beweismittel-scaled.jpg 2x\" data-column-space=\"auto\" data-lazyload=\"\" data-grve-filter=\"yes\" \/><\/div><\/div>\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"grve-empty-space grve-height-1x\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; full_height=&#8221;yes&#8221;]<h2 class=\"grve-element grve-title grve-align-inherit grve-h3\"><span>Evidence of Indecency<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Private documents from historical criminal files of homosexual people<\/span><\/h2>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The exhibition Beweise f\u00fcr die Unzucht presents materials and documents confiscated by the Austrian police in the course of the criminal prosecution of homosexual women and men between 1900 and the end of the criminalisation of \u201eUnzucht wider die Natur&#8221; (unnatural fornication) in 1971. What was once an expression of intimacy and personal freedom (love letters, private photographs, diaries, everyday notes, harmless keepsakes) was turned into incriminating evidence by the intervention of the state. These documents were never intended for the eyes of others, neither for the police, nor for historians, nor for the visitors of an exhibition. They stand for profound violations of privacy and mark moments in which people lost their safety, their self-confidence, their dignity and their personal integrity.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Opening: 11 November 2026, 6.30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 November 2026 &#8211; 28 February 2027<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","grve-entry-item","grve-blog-item"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Evidence of Indecency - Blog - Qwien - Zentrum f\u00fcr queere Geschichte<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The exhibition Beweise f\u00fcr die Unzucht presents materials and documents confiscated by the Austrian police in the course of the criminal prosecution of homosexual women and men between 1900 and the end of the criminalisation of \u201eUnzucht wider die Natur&quot; (unnatural fornication) in 1971. 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