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Contents:
- NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
- SECRET CY: THE HIDN HISTORY OF GAY WASHGTON
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
- SECRET CY: BEHD THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF DC POLICS
NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
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Which didn’t stop burly Hler nfidante and head of the Nazi SA paraary wg Ernst Röhm, a not-terribly-closeted gay man, om equentg the tablishment.
As the film explas, the SA had a strong homoerotic element, a disgt wh women and femy they somehow ed to jtify homosexualy – for a time, anyway.
SECRET CY: THE HIDN HISTORY OF GAY WASHGTON
For s, the specter of homosexualy hnted Washgton: The mere suggtn someone might be gay stroyed reputatns, end reers, and ed liv. Jam Kirchick discs dividuals who urageoly cid that the source of their private shame uld stead be galvanized for public pri. * secret history gay *
At a certa pot, Röhm’s iendship wh Hler uld only take him so far a Nazi regime creasgly set on eraditg homosexualy. Röhm is but one player this ncise, ftly told doc that the Eldorado as a lnchg pad to a broar story about beg gay Nazi Germany.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
The film never out and yells , but is also a remr of the Fal Solutn tenor that still acpani much anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric and, creasgly, policy. He was also a bohemian spir who had a passnate homosexual relatnship wh Manasse Herbst, a Galician Jewish actor who fled Germany 1936.
Hirschfeld, a groundbreakg sexologist, both gay and Jewish and therefore a prime target of Nazi Germany, was thankfully not prent when his stute was ransacked by mardg Nazi youth (here aga, there are photos). Here we experience the nce that thrived before the fall, at a hiaway for those whose differenc would soon mark them for prison, exile, or, many s, ath ( is timated that between 5, 000 and 15, 000 gay people died the ncentratn mps for vlatg Paragraph 175).
He worked at a gas statn on the rner of North Van Ns Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, out of which, he says, he and a dre of his male and female iends serviced Hollywood celebri—many of them closeted homosexuals. They provid a safety zone for people whose reers would have been ed if the tth about them emerged the s before gay rights and the AIDS crisis.
SECRET CY: BEHD THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF DC POLICS
For s, the specter of homosexualy hnted Washgton.
The mere suggtn that a person might be gay stroyed reputatns, end reers, and ed liv.