Pepe Palacs is a member of the Movement for Sexual Diversy Ristance (MDR), a Honduran lbian, gay, bi and transgenr anizatn. He is on the
Contents:
- THE STORY OF WILLEM ARON, THE GAY MAN WHO SACRIFICED HIS LIFE TO PROTECT DUTCH JEWS FROM THE NAZIS
- AMSTERDAM ‘STUMBLG STON’ MEMORATE GAY VICTIMS OF NAZIS
- THE GAY HOLOT HERO: WILLEM ARON
- GAY HISTORY – JULY 1943: GAY WWII RISTANCE FIGHTER WILLEM ARON EXECUTED BY THE NAZIS: “LET BE KNOWN THAT HOMOSEXUALS ARE NOT WARDS!”
- AFTER THE WAR, YOU HAVE TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THE DUTCH GAY RISTANCE FIGHTERS
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- LAST GAY JEWISH HOLOT SURVIVOR DI
- AFTER THE WAR, YOU HAVE TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THE DUTCH GAY RISTANCE FIGHTERS
THE STORY OF WILLEM ARON, THE GAY MAN WHO SACRIFICED HIS LIFE TO PROTECT DUTCH JEWS FROM THE NAZIS
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The Story Of Willem Aron, The Gay Man Who Sacrificed His Life To Protect Dutch Jews From The Nazis. But Willem Aron, an openly gay man, had no illns about what the Nazi occupatn would mean for people like him. And the years that followed, Aron’ legacy as a gay revolutnary was nearly lost to time.
But Aron’ relatnship wh his fay terrated when he me out as gay at the age of 17. Though some Dutch people uneasily accepted the Nazi occupatn, Willem Aron unrstood the threat that he and other mori faced — pecially when the Nazis re-crimalized homosexualy, which had been legal the Netherlands sce 1811. On March 27, 1943, Aron and 15 other men marched up to the Cizen Registratn Buildg wearg fake uniforms that a iend of Aron, a gay tailor, had ma.
Shortly before his ath, he relayed some of his fal words to his lawyer: “Let be known that homosexuals are not wards.
AMSTERDAM ‘STUMBLG STON’ MEMORATE GAY VICTIMS OF NAZIS
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Only recent years has he gotten his due as a gay ristance fighter. Though his story is ltle-known today, Willem Aron left behd a powerful legacy as an openly gay man and ristance fighter.
More than 75 years after they were murred the gas chambers or shot, gay victims of Nazi persecutn were remembered wh “stumblg ston” laid Amsterdam this Netherlands has about 8, 500 Stolperstee, (stumblg ston), the brass memorial plaqu embedd the street that ll on passers-by to remember dividual victims of the Nazi genoci and opprsn, a mental “stumblg” that forc pestrians to reckon wh the ston laid this week are the first the Netherlands to memorate Jews and ristance fighters who were known to be gay, acrdg to the Dutch historian Judh Schuyf, who played a leadg role the project. “There was always a discsn the Netherlands that gays and lbians hadn’t been really persecuted the war, ” she said. She knew otherwise, havg intified several Jews and ristance fighters, who were intified as gay or lbian police fil.
THE GAY HOLOT HERO: WILLEM ARON
Willem Aron is often referred to as the gay ristance fighter. This always puzzled me bee I don't know why his sexual orientatn would bear any relevance to the brave acts he did. Willem Aron was a Dutch ristance fighter who gave his life tryg to protect his Jewish untrymen om the Nazis. Willem Aron… * gay resistance fighter *
“They were arrted bee they were gay; they were sent to the mps bee they were Jewish, ” she said. It is plited but I am que sure they were arrted bee they were gay. Her police file stat she was “ tentn for homosexualy … also Jewish”.
Altogether, ne gay victims of Nazi persecutn are beg remembered. About 102, 000 were murred ath mps and 2, 000 mted suici or died attemptg to activists believe gay victims have been overlooked. From a young age, he was a talented artist and his parents enuraged his creativy, until he me out as homosexual at age 17.
In a time when nearly all gay people were the closet, Willem’s parents uld not accept his choice to live openly. Willem’s last words before beg executed July, 1943 were, “Let be known that homosexuals are not wards.
GAY HISTORY – JULY 1943: GAY WWII RISTANCE FIGHTER WILLEM ARON EXECUTED BY THE NAZIS: “LET BE KNOWN THAT HOMOSEXUALS ARE NOT WARDS!”
The cy of Amsterdam is to honor the memori of ne gay and lbian ristance fighters who lost their liv batg the Nazi occupatn of the Netherlands durg World War II. At the iative of historian Judh Schuyf, who has been rearchg the bgraphi of the ristance fighters — all of whom were Jews — * gay resistance fighter *
He was the son of theater stume signers and one of six children, but beme tranged om his fay after he me out as gay at the age of seventeen. At a time when homosexualy was still illegal and eply taboo, Aron spoke openly about . Aron said he hoped that by his life and ath, he uld prove that “homosexuals are not wards.
Entry Filed unr: 20th Century, Arson, Artists, Capal Punishment, Death Penalty, Disfavored Mori, Executn, Germany, Gut Wrers, History, Homosexuals, Mass Executns, Netherlands, Occupatn and Colonialism, Other Voic, Power, Shot, Wartime Executns. 1943 his last msage before his executn, Aron, who had lived openly as a gay man before the war, asked his lawyer to pass along this msage:.
“Let be known that homosexuals are not wards!
AFTER THE WAR, YOU HAVE TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THE DUTCH GAY RISTANCE FIGHTERS
Many members of the Dutch Unrground were gay and lbian. This film pays homage to them and reunts their story. * gay resistance fighter *
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June 2013 Pepe Palacs is a member of the Movement for Sexual Diversy Ristance (MDR), a Honduran lbian, gay, bi and transgenr anizatn. Tour sponsored by Chigo’s Gay Liberatn Network, Palacs publicized MDR’s mpaign to mand jtice for the 91 LGBT people who have been murred Honduras sce the up. Palacs was terviewed for the Freedom Socialist by Stephen Durham, a longtime gay activist and the Freedom Socialist Party’s U.
Printial ndidate — What is the history of the LGBT movement Honduras, and what chang did the up brg to the liv of gay people and their anizatns?
They evolved om gay social clubs to NGOs, and foced on their own fight and weren’t aware of the other stggl gog on around them by femists, digeno and Ao-Hondurans, unn workers, and young NGOs beme pennt on ternatnal velopment funds alloted exclively to fight HIV/AIDS.
LAST GAY JEWISH HOLOT SURVIVOR DI
As a rult, even LGBT human rights mands were left out of their the begng of Manuel Zelaya’s princy, ndns for gays were siar to what they had been unr prev rightist ernments. However, the up regime rpond wh a wave of vlence and 26 LGBT people were killed seven months, cludg a well-known gay lear and ristance activist, Walter Tróchez.
AFTER THE WAR, YOU HAVE TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THE DUTCH GAY RISTANCE FIGHTERS
As a rult, LGBT anizatns cid to rce their visibily and activism, and many abandoned their seats the Ristance didn’t unrstand that was a historic and unique opportuny to fally advance the gay movement beyond s narrow foc on fightg HIV to a broar stggle for social jtice and equaly for was born “officially” October 2010 by a group of LGTB activists who were socialists and ristance supporters. Many of had been active , or even founrs of, gay NGOs.
However, Zelaya feated him the printial electns the followg year the Ristance Front created s own electoral party and the primary electns we had a gay man and a transgenr woman nng for ngrs.
For the November electns the ristance printial ndidate is Xmara Castro, Zelaya’s wife and the former first — The Obama admistratn says that rpect for gay rights is now a factor s foreign policy cisns. It has even sent FBI agents to Honduras to help prosecute s of murr agast gays — s that the U. He won the 2012 electns bee of gay and Lat voters.