In the DDR women hould be married and be a mother. 'Muttipolitik' did not leave any room for other forms of relationships. Only in 1978 a group of lesbian women organized a party, even when the police tried to forbid that. The Evangelical Church played an important role in the emancipation, just like other civil rights groups. Krautz tells the history from 1978 to the peacefull revolution of 1989.