After the War, You Have to Tell Everyone About the Dutch Gay Ristance Fighters: Directed by Kls Müller. Many members of the Dutch Unrground were gay and lbian. This film pays homage to them and reunts their story." data-id="ma
Contents:
- THE STORY OF WILLEM ARON, THE GAY MAN WHO SACRIFICED HIS LIFE TO PROTECT DUTCH JEWS FROM THE NAZIS
- LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: DUTCH GAY MAN FIED THE NAZIS AND SAVED THOANDS
- THE GAY HOLOT HERO: WILLEM ARON
- PERSECUTN OF GAY PEOPLE NAZI GERMANY
- AFTER THE WAR, YOU HAVE TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THE DUTCH GAY RISTANCE FIGHTERS
- DUTCH GAY MAN KILLED BY NAZIS WAS LEAR OF RISTANCE
- AMSTERDAM ‘STUMBLG STON’ MEMORATE GAY VICTIMS OF NAZIS
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
THE STORY OF WILLEM ARON, THE GAY MAN WHO SACRIFICED HIS LIFE TO PROTECT DUTCH JEWS FROM THE NAZIS
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.
LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: DUTCH GAY MAN FIED THE NAZIS AND SAVED THOANDS
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.
THE GAY HOLOT HERO: WILLEM ARON
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.
PERSECUTN OF GAY PEOPLE NAZI GERMANY
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. "Homosexuals are not wards.
AFTER THE WAR, YOU HAVE TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THE DUTCH GAY RISTANCE FIGHTERS
An openly gay man and a tirels member of the Dutch ristance agast the Nazi occupatn of the Netherlands, he willgly sacrificed his life for a missn that ultimately protected hundreds of thoands of Jews' liv. Often emed the birthplace of LGBTQ rights, the Netherlands crimalized homosexualy 1811, but rtrictive l still barred homosexualy the early 20th century.
In 1911, the beliefs of the lg polil parti led to the age of nsent for homosexualy to be changed to 21 the Netherlands — spe the age for heterosexualy remag at 16.
DUTCH GAY MAN KILLED BY NAZIS WAS LEAR OF RISTANCE
Dpe the first gay bar openg s doors durg this time, the rtrictive age lgs, along wh other laws agast public cency, were ed to unfairly target gay men. He refed to supprs his inty as a gay man, leavg home that year at age 17 and severg ti wh his fay.
He wrote about beg kicked out of apartments bee he was gay, there was no protectn.
AMSTERDAM ‘STUMBLG STON’ MEMORATE GAY VICTIMS OF NAZIS
"Though Aron was foced on fendg the safety of the Dutch Jews, he and other LGBTQ cizens also saw the imment threat of the Nazis to their their occupatn of the Netherlands at the start of the 1940s, the Germans brought wh them Paragraph 175 — a law first troduced by Adolf Hler Germany an effort to cleanse the untry of homosexual activy.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
The lg, which first began by expellg any gay and lbian anizatns Germany, was revised to make homosexual activy between men punishable by imprisonment.