Why some whe natnalists want to appear gay-iendly.
Contents:
- ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
- JOHANN HARI : THE STRANGE, STRANGE STORY OF THE GAY FASCISTS
- THE PHILOSOPHIL FASCISTS OF THE GAY ALT-RIGHT
- THE STRANGE, STRANGE STORY OF 'GAY FASCISM' NIERS
- EUROPEAN FASCIST MOVEMENTS ARE LED BY HOMOSEXUALS ACRDG TO GAY JOURNALIST
- WHE NATNALIST GROUPS ARE SPLTG OVER GAY INCLN
ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
The 1920s and early ‘30’s looked like the begng of the end for centuri of gay tolerance. Then me fascism and the Nazis. * gay fascists *
In 2017, Germany’s Cabet approved a bill that would expunge the nvictns of tens of thoands of German men for “homosexual acts” unr that untry’s anti-gay law known as “Paragraph 175. Partly drivg this new era of tolerance were the doctors and scientists who started lookg at homosexualy and “transvtism” (a word of that era that enpassed transgenr people) as a natural characteristic wh which some were born, and not a “rangement.
'” She go further, wonrg if “the purge of the SA and the killg of Röhm reprented the leral objective rrelative for the supprsn and reprsn of the homosexual sir their own Nazism? Around 15, 000 gay people were sent to ncentratn mps, where some were experimented upon bizarre efforts to fd a “cure” for sexual orientatn, a forhadowg of Amerin psychologil and later fundamentalist efforts to try the same thg. One of the founrs of the German Nazi party, he was an open homosexual, fally assassated on the orrs of his rival for power, Adolf Hler, who may well have been homosexual himself.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
Ernst Röhm, the hight-rankg gay Nazi, prents an tertg study the nstctn and ntament of masculy by the right. * gay fascists *
It has been said by historian Louis Snyr that Röhm "projected a social orr which homosexualy would be regard as a human behavur pattern of high repute… He flnted his homosexualy public and sisted his croni do the same. Ray Hill, who filtrated the Brish fascist movement for twelve years to gather rmatn for anti-fascist groups, said homosexualy is “extremely prevalent” the Brish far right, and "at one stage the 1980s nearly half of the movement’s anisers were gay".
Dutch polician Pim Fortuyn, scribed as a "gay former Marxist profsor", ran on an anti-immigrant and anti-Islam platform, that was tegorized as racist by leftwg observers.
JOHANN HARI : THE STRANGE, STRANGE STORY OF THE GAY FASCISTS
The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy and persecuted gay men between 1933 and 1945. * gay fascists *
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. Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works.
Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung).
THE PHILOSOPHIL FASCISTS OF THE GAY ALT-RIGHT
Says gay men have been at the heart of every major fascist movement that ever was - cludg the Third Reich * gay fascists *
Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175. A few years later, May 2008, the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Nazism (Denkmal für die im Natnalsozialism verfolgten Homosexuellen) was unveiled nearby Tiergarten park central Berl.
THE STRANGE, STRANGE STORY OF 'GAY FASCISM' NIERS
Yet when the Brish Natnal Party - our own home-grown Holot-nyg bigots - announced was fieldg an openly gay ndidate the European electns this June, dited followers of fascism didn't blk. Mart Lee, thor of a study of European fascism, explas, "For Kuhnen, there was somethg supermacho about beg a Nazi, as well as beg a homosexual, both of which enforced his sense of livg on the edge, of belongg to an ele that was sted to make an impact.
They have tried to dispt gay paras, scribe gay people as "evil", and BNP lear Nick Griff reacted charmgly to the bombg of the Admiral Dunn pub 1999 wh a lumn sayg, "The TV footage of gay monstrators [outsi the scene of rnage] flntg their perversn ont of the world's journalists showed jt why so many ordary people fd the creatur repulsive.
EUROPEAN FASCIST MOVEMENTS ARE LED BY HOMOSEXUALS ACRDG TO GAY JOURNALIST
Homosexualy is "extremely prevalent" the upper echelons of the Brish far right, and at one stage the 1980s nearly half of the movement's anisers were gay, he claims. Gerry Gable, edor of the anti-fascist magaze 'Searchlight', explas, "I have looked at Bra's Nazi groups for s and this homophobic hypocrisy has been there all the time. I nnot thk of any anisatn on the extreme right that hasn't attacked people on the grounds of their sexual preference and at the same time ntaed many gay officers and activists.
They felt that the cult of "real men" and hypermascule thugs was stirrg up the most base feelgs " the very place, the gay movement, where you would least expect them. Like so many of the generatn who formed the Nazi Party, he was nurtured by and obssed wh the homoerotic myth of the trench - heroic, betiful boys prepared to die for their brothers and their untry. This belief the superry of homosexualy had a strong German tradn that grew up at the turn of the twentieth century around Adolf Brand, publisher of the untry's first gay magaze.
German historian Lothar Machtan argu that Hler had Rohm - and almost all of the large number of gay figur wh the SA - killed to silence speculatn about his own homosexual experienc. In his disturbg 1999 film "Sk Flick', a bourgeois gay uple - one black, one whe - are sexually terrorised by a gang of gay skheads who beat off to 'Me Kampf' and beat up 'femm'.
WHE NATNALIST GROUPS ARE SPLTG OVER GAY INCLN
He impli that bourgeois gay norms quickly break down to reveal a fascist lurkg unrneath; the movie ends wh the black character beg raped ont of his half-aroed whe lover, as the racist gang chant, "Fuck the monkey.