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Contents:

• GAY RIGHTSBEG TURKISH AND GAY GERMANY
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• WHY GAY GERMAN MEN ARE SEEKG REPARATNS FOR A HOMOPHOBIC NAZI LAW
• THERE IS PLENTY OF GAY SEX KARACHI, PAKISTAN
• GERMANY BANS GAY NVERSN THERAPY FOR MORS
• GAY GERMANY
• RULTS FOR BARISH KE KARAN ROAD DHASH GAYI HAI TRANSLATN OM HDI TO ENGLISH

GAY RIGHTSBEG TURKISH AND GAY GERMANY

But the ads are fund by the Lbian and Gay Feratn of Germany wh the aim of brgg homosexualy out the open wh Berl's large Turkish populatn. Acrdg to Bali Saygili, a spokperson for the Gay and Lbian Feratn of Germany, the mpaign has ed a flood of lls to the anizatn's telephone help l. "We even had parents who rang to ask, 'My son jt told me he is gay, how do I react' or 'How n we rennect wh our child' bee the fay has had problems alg wh their child's homosexualy.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

The anizatn's spokperson, Er Ünsal, says that although homosexualy is still kept quiet the Turkish muny, there has been some change for the better. Although is illegal Europe to discrimate agast anyone bee of their sexual orientatn, prejudice agast gays and lbians still exists Germany.

"Sometim I fd playg this game very difficult, bee 's simply a lie and I don't know how much longer I n go on before I tell my fay that I am homosexual, " Sah said.

WHY GAY GERMAN MEN ARE SEEKG REPARATNS FOR A HOMOPHOBIC NAZI LAW

He has first-hand experience on how silence about homosexualy n e unsafe sex practic and crease the risk of AIDS.

It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power. However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men. The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”).

The newer slang word “schwul” (often translated to English as “gay”) was also creasgly popular among certa groups. In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach.

THERE IS PLENTY OF GAY SEX KARACHI, PAKISTAN

It was the relatively eeg atmosphere of the Weimar Republic that gay muni and works grew and veloped unprecented ways. Some joed “iendship leagu” (Frndschaftsverbän), groups that polilly and socially anized gay men, lbian women, and others.

Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works. They actively tried to build a sense of muny among gay men, and clud personal ads and rmatn about gay meetg plac.

Shortly thereafter, they sought to dismantle the visible gay cultur and works that had veloped durg the Weimar Republic. Nohels, the Nazi closur and creased police surveillance ma far more difficult for gay men to nnect wh each other.

GERMANY BANS GAY NVERSN THERAPY FOR MORS

In a further latn, the Nazis ed new laws and police practic to arrt and ta whout trial a limed number of gay men begng late 1933 and early 1934. Three events the years 1934–1936 radilized the Nazi regime’s mpaign agast homosexualy and led to more systematic opprsn of gay men.

Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung). The notorly homophobic Himmler saw both homosexualy and abortn as threats to the German birth rate and th to the fate of the German people. In the Nazis’ unrstandg, the men were “homosexual” (“homosexuell”) offenrs and th crimals and enemi of the state.

GAY GERMANY

In the mid- to late 1930s, the police raid bars and other meetg plac that they believed to be popular wh gay men. In rarer s, the Kripo or the Gtapo would send a man directly to a ncentratn mp as a “homosexual” (“homosexuell”) offenr. For example, gay men tegorized by the Nazi regime as Aryan had far more optns than those tegorized as Jews or Roma (Gypsi).

RULTS FOR BARISH KE KARAN ROAD DHASH GAYI HAI TRANSLATN OM HDI TO ENGLISH

Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175.

The efforts of scholars and German gay rights anizatns have helped to brg the persecutn of gay men unr the Nazis to the public eye. In the 1990s, the German ernment acknowledged “persecuted homosexuals” (“verfolgten Homosexuellen”) as victims of the Nazi regime. For the first time, gay men who had suffered at the hands of the Nazis beme eligible for moary pensatn om the German ernment for jtic perpetrated agast them.

A few years later, May 2008, the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Nazism (Denkmal für die im Natnalsozialism verfolgten Homosexuellen) was unveiled nearby Tiergarten park central Berl. But actually, the first public LGBTQ+ rights prott took place Germany, over a century earlier, 1867—one year before the term ‘homosexualy’ was ed, German! The Nazis ma more severe and imprisoned 10, 000 gay men (and some lbians, although they were not vered by Paragraph 175) ncentratn mps, where they were marked wh the pk triangle—and a majory died.