The 1920s and early ‘30’s looked like the begng of the end for centuri of gay tolerance. Then me fascism and the Nazis.
Contents:
- PERSECUTN OF GAY PEOPLE NAZI GERMANY
- STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
PERSECUTN OF GAY PEOPLE NAZI GERMANY
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Jt as the Nazis forced Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David, they forced people they labeled as gay to wear verted pk triangl (or ‘die Rosa-Wkel’).
STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY
At this Berl clic, a gay Jewish doctor treated trans patients and performed the first genr affirmg surgeri. * nazi on lgbt parad *
And the fact that was almost impossible to nvict anyone unls he nfsed to such a crime urt meant that police jt kept a watchful eye on gay bars and events, and Germany end up beg home to a vibrant gay muny. Historian Robert Beachy argu that, ironilly, the law spurred scientific tert the study of sexual preferenc, and that rearch tend to enurage a more scientific unrstandg of human sexualy, which further allowed the ia of gay rights to flourish. Hler saw gay men as a threat to his mpaign to purify Germany, pecially bee their partnerships uld not bear children who would grow the Aryan race he wanted to cultivate.
Durg that perd, gay-iendly bars and clubs started beg shut down, thori burned the books at a major rearch stutn voted to the study of sexualy, and gay aternal anizatns were shuttered.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
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The efforts only creased after the Night of the Long Kniv, the 1934 purge of Nazi lears who were acced of tryg to overthrow Hler; they clud Storm Troopers lear Ernst Röhm, whom the SS murred, later cg his homosexualy as jtifitn for his murr.