Books shelved as gay-prison: Takg The Prison Alphas by Terry Stone, Prison Walls by Terry Stone, Is It Gay If He's My Cellmate? by Shane Whman, The G...
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- BT GAY PRISON ROMANC
- GAY PRISON BOOKS
- GAY HISTORIL FICTN BOOKS
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
BT GAY PRISON ROMANC
* books about gay prisoners *
Bt Gay Prison Romanc (82 books),. Bt Gay Prison Romanc.
Books featurg gay (m/m) characters prisons, or recently released om prison and on parole. (shelved 2 tim as gay-historil-fictn).
(shelved 1 time as gay-historil-fictn).
GAY PRISON BOOKS
Books shelved as gay-historil-fictn: The Song of Achill by Male Miller, The Charteer by Mary Renlt, As Meat Lov Salt by Maria McCann, At ... * books about gay prisoners *
The Nazi dictatorship policed, prosecuted, and ultimately murred thoands of gay men durg s 12 years of le. Adolf Hler’s regime overturned all prev attempts Germany to crimalize same-sex acts, to challenge bigoted stereotyp about homosexualy, and to create tablishments where the men uld live and socialize openly. Ernst Röhm, lear of the SA, the Nazi Party’s stormtroopers, had been openly gay, but Hler had only tolerated this until he beme too troublome.
In a Febary 1937 speech Bavaria, Reichsführer-SS Herich Himmler spoke of homosexualy as “pravy” and a “plague. ” Eventually, 100, 000 German and Atrian men were arrted on charg of homosexualy.
GAY HISTORIL FICTN BOOKS
The Nazi dictatorship policed, prosecuted, and ultimately murred thoands of gay men durg s 12 years of le. * books about gay prisoners *
Although the Third Reich was one of the most heartlsly homophobic regim morn history, practilly no first-hand acunts of Nazi vlence agast gay men existed eher Wt or East Germany before the early 1970s.
As early as 1946, Eugen Kogon, the progrsive German Catholic journalist and survivor of Buchenwald, scribed the suatn for gay men the mps. “The fate of homosexuals the ncentratn mps, ” wrote Kogon, “n only be scribed as ghastly. ” That same year, the Soviet zone of occupatn (later the German Democratic Republic), Rudolf Klimmer appealed to the Organizatn of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime to offer regnn of gay men as victims of Natnal Socialist terror.
Acrdg to Erik Jensen, gays and lbians “not only met silence the postwar perd regardg the Nazi persecutn of homosexuals, but they also faced the pernic myth that homosexuals themselv formed the backbone of the Nazi movement. An attempt by the Hamburg-based Society for Human Rights to w regnn of gay ncentratn mp mat Wt Germany met the same fate as Klimmer’s enavor.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * books about gay prisoners *
Calls for gay and lbian liberatn the palist mocraci the late 1960s and early ‘70s did fally create a more open atmosphere for the history of the opprsn of gays and lbians the Third Reich to emerge. Two years later filmmaker Rosa von Prnheim released Nicht r Homosexuelle ist pervers, sonrn die Suatn, r er lebt (The Homosexual is not Perverse, But, Rather, the Suatn Which He Liv. ) Prnheim (born Holger Radke 1942) had actually taken the name “Rosa” (German for Pk) to draw attentn to the Pk Triangle, the intifitn badge assigned by the SS to homosexuals the ncentratn mps.
A revolutnary work, is still one of the very few memoirs by a gay victim of Nazism. The book not only documents Nazi crim agast gay men but also dicts the discrimatn which ntued after the feat of the Third Reich.
Kohout went on to scribe the btal regime of forced labor and systematic vlence he and other gay men forced to wear the Pk Triangle experienced there.
WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
In unfettable chapters, Kohout munit attempts by the SS to “cure” people of homosexualy by “pulsory regular viss to the brothel” at Flossenbürg. He narrat episos of torture and murr of gay prisoners. Kohout’s memoir ntributed so much to the subsequent wave of books, articl, documentari, and exhibs on the Nazi persecutn and murr of gay men.
Long margalized, this history is more important than ever— Germany and beyond—as homophobia still pos a fundamental threat to human eedom and equaly.