The Pk Triangle: From Nazi Label to Symbol of Gay Pri | HISTORY

Contents:

• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• HLER WAS GAY - AND KILLED TO HI , BOOK SAYS
• THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY
• GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

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. 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 found the stute 1919, after begng his reer as an activist 1896 wh his pamphlet Sappho and Socrat, about a gay man who took his own life after he felt he was beg erced to a straight marriage. He even wrote one of the first gay characters to appear a film, for 1919’s Different From the 1904, he published a book tled Berl’s Drt Gchlecht, which translat to Berl’s Third Sex. Includ unr this umbrella were what he nsired “suatnal” and “nstutnal” homosexuals—a regnn that there is often a spectm of bisexual practice—as well as what he termed “transvt.

HLER WAS GAY - AND KILLED TO HI , BOOK SAYS

Hirschfeld’s own precsor sexology, Richard von Krafft-Ebg, had claimed the 19th century that homosexualy was natural sexual variatn and ngenal.

” What began as a sterilizatn program ultimately led to the extermatn of lns of Jews, Roma, Soviet and Polish cizens—and homosexuals and transgenr people.

Hirschfeld’s likens would be reproduced on Nazi propaganda as the worst kd of offenr (both Jewish and homosexual) to the perfect heteronormative Aryan race. Eyewns acunts om Hler's former lovers, and historil documents that for the first time illumate mours that have circulated for over half a century, are disclosed Hler's Secret: The Double Life of a Dictator rpected German historian Lothar Machtan even claims his book that Hler orred the aths of several high-rankg Nazis to prevent the secret of his homosexualy om Röhm, the lear of Hler's Sturm Abteilung or Storm Troopers, tried to blackmail Hler by threateng to reveal his sexualy. Röhm, who was also gay, was murred as a rult, acrdg to Machtan, a history teacher at Bremen refers to sr of historil documents to support his this.

THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

Acrdg to Erich Ebermeier, a lawyer and wrer who viewed Hler's ary fil years later: 'Dpe his bravery towards the enemy, bee of his homosexual activy he lost out on a promotn to non-missned officer. Machtan says that Hler was particularly drawn to Rudolf Hs, his puty, who was known party circl as 'black Emma' and wh whom he had spent months Landsberg, then, did the Nazis persecute homosexuals, sendg hundreds of thoands of them to their aths labour mps and the gas chambers?

As part of their missn to racially and culturally “purify” Germany, the Nazis arrted thoands of LGBT dividuals, mostly gay men, whom they viewed as Uned Stat Holot Memorial Mm timat 100, 000 gay men were arrted and between 5, 000 and 15, 000 were placed ncentratn mps. )Corbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, the mps, gay men were treated pecially harshly, by guards and fellow prisoners alike. “There was no solidary for the homosexual prisoners; they belonged to the lowt ste, ” Pierre Seel, a gay Holot survivor, wrote his memoir I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi timated 65 percent of gay men ncentratn mps died between 1933 and 1945.

Horac Villalobos/Corbis/Getty ImagMemorial plaqu for homosexuals, Jehovah's Wns and Wehrmacht serters are placed where once stood one of the molished barracks Buchenwald ncentratn mp near Weimar, Germany. In 1986, six New York Cy activists created a poster wh the words SILENCE = DEATH and a bright pk upward-facg triangle, meant to ll attentn to the AIDs crisis that was cimatg populatns of gay men across the untry. Wrg The New Yorker, Alex Ross agre wh Beachy that the Germans first vented gay rights more than a century the mid-1920s, public attus Germany towards lbians, gay men, and transgenr people had bee relatively acceptg.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Doctors and scientists began to scribe homosexualy and “transvtism” (perd vobulary enpassg transgenr and genr-variant people) as a natural characteristic rather than a “rangement. Where homosexual activy or viance om tablished genr rol/drs was banned by law or tradnal ctom, such nmnatn might be munited through sensatnal public trials, exile, medil warngs, and language om the pulp. By the 20th century, a movement regnn of gays and lbians was unrway, abetted by the social climate of femism and new anthropologi of difference.

STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY

However, throughout 150 years of homosexual social movements (roughly om the 1870s to today), lears and anizers stggled to addrs the very different ncerns and inty issu of gay men, women intifyg as lbians, and others intifyg as genr variant or nonbary.

Whe, male, and Wtern activists whose groups and theori gaed leverage agast homophobia did not necsarily reprent the range of racial, class, and natnal inti plitg a broar LGBT agenda.

GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA

Most historians agree that there is evince of homosexual activy and same-sex love, whether such relatnships were accepted or persecuted, every documented culture. We know that homosexualy existed ancient Israel simply bee is prohibed the Bible, whereas flourished between both men and women Ancient Greece. Such eyewns acunts the era before other media were of urse riddled wh the bias of the (often) Wtern or Whe observer, and add to beliefs that homosexual practic were other, foreign, savage, a medil issue, or evince of a lower racial hierarchy.

The European powers enforced their own crimal s agast what was lled sodomy the New World: the first known se of homosexual activy receivg a ath sentence North Ameri occurred 1566, when the Spanish executed a Frenchman Florida. Biblil terpretatn ma illegal for a woman to wear pants or a man to adopt female drs, and sensatnalized public trials warned agast “viants” but also ma such martyrs and hero popular: Joan of Arc is one example, and the chillg origs of the word “faggot” clu a stick of wood ed public burngs of gay men. ” In Wtern history, we fd ltle formal study of what was later lled homosexualy before the 19th century, beyond medil texts intifyg women wh large cloris as “tribas” and severe punishment s for male homosexual acts.