{"id":149,"date":"2020-04-27T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comingout\/?p=149"},"modified":"2020-04-28T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:24:00","slug":"discussion-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comingout\/discussion-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These discussion questions are intended to assist with using\u00a0<em>Coming Out<\/em> in class.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What do you know about homosexuality in East Germany or in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_Bloc\">Eastern bloc<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>What does the film convey about the experiences of gay men and lesbians in East Germany?<\/li>\n<li>Consider the legal situation for lesbians and gay men in the GDR and how it changed. Where does the film\u00a0<em>Coming Out<\/em> fit in with respect to these legal developments?<\/li>\n<li>How does the film communicate the standard expectations of East German society with respect to gender and sexual behaviour? That is, how is the difference of non-heteronormative sexuality signalled?<\/li>\n<li>Where does one find aspects of community in\u00a0<em>Coming Out<\/em>?<\/li>\n<li>What is the significance of Walter&#8217;s conversation with Philipp, in which Walter speaks about his past history?<\/li>\n<li>Almost at the end of the film, Philipp stands in front of his class, while he is being observed by fellow teachers, and says simply, &#8220;Yes.&#8221; How do you interpret this scene?<\/li>\n<li>Where does the film leave each of the main characters?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@nikarthur?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Nik MacMillan<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/discussion?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Ideas for discussion of the film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14197,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}