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Contents:

• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI
• THE TOP LGBTQ+ DATG S AND APPS: 14 BT GAY DATG S
• GAY BERL

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy between 1933 and 1945.

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. They also arrted large numbers of gay men unr Paragraph 175. It is important to note that not all of the men arrted and nvicted unr Paragraph 175 intified as gay.

Intifyg as a gay man was never explicly crimalized Germany.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men.

Gay men Germany were not a monolhic group, nor did the Nazi regime view them as such. Beg gay uld and often did rult persecutn. However, other factors also shaped gay men’s liv durg the Nazi era.

This diversy meant that gay men had a wi range of experienc Nazi Germany.

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For example, gay men active anti-Nazi polil movements risked beg arrted as polil opponents.

And gay Jewish men faced Nazi persecutn and mass murr as Jews. Already the mid- to late-neteenth century, there were ditns of nascent and growg gay muni Germany. Among the terms were “gleichgchlechtlich” (“same-sex oriented”) and “homosexuell” (“homosexual”).

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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. Today, the terms “Homosexualät” and “homosexuell” are often nsired rogatory. Gay Men durg the Weimar Republic (1918–1933).

Gay muni and works Germany ntued to grow and velop durg the Weimar Republic (1918–1933). Many gay men embraced this new culture.

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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. Gay Communi and Networks the Weimar Republic. It was the relatively eeg atmosphere of the Weimar Republic that gay muni and works grew and veloped unprecented ways.

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More German men chose to live openly as gay. Some joed “iendship leagu” (Frndschaftsverbän), groups that polilly and socially anized gay men, lbian women, and others. Gay men gathered together at meetg plac, such as bars, that tered to a gay clientele.