Wh celebratns of Gay Pri takg place across Germany this July, we look at the past and the future of rights for the LGBTQ+ muny Germany.
Contents:
- IN SERMON, RSIAN CHURCH LEAR KIRILL LKS UKRAE WAR WH GAY PRI PARA
- GAY PRI CALENDAR GERMANY 2023: A PLETE CSD LIST OF 60+ PRI EVENTS
IN SERMON, RSIAN CHURCH LEAR KIRILL LKS UKRAE WAR WH GAY PRI PARA
Samuel Huneke wr that this Pri Month we mt be mdful not jt of gay men, but rather of all members of the LGBTQ fay – fdg narrativ that n une rather than divi . And that begs wh an hont examatn of Nazi persecutn of lbians. * nazi on lgbt parade *
"Where was Detro Police when armed Nazis were marchg wh their NAZI FLAG shoutg Homophobic slurs, anti-black racism, and whe natnalism you ask? The Saturday prott was one of more than 25 agast drag events the Uned Stat so far 2023, acrdg to the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), the largt LGBTQ+ advocy group the least six of those anti-drag cints have taken place Oh 2023, acrdg to GLAAD. 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. This June, though, we should be mdful not jt of gay men but rather of all members of the LGBTQ fay – fdg narrativ that n une rather than divi . The pk triangle is inic bee allus to one of the most btal episos the centurilong history of gay persecutn: the symbol the Nazis forced gay men to wear ncentratn mps.
In the s after World War II, the pk triangle offered gay activists Germany and the Uned Stat a potent way to advote for their rights. They typilly pot to the fact that although Nazi law imposed harsh penalti on gay men, female homosexualy was never explicly crimalized. Their work has monstrated that, even the absence of a law crimalizg female homosexualy, the Nazi ernment persecuted lbian women bee they were lbian.
GAY PRI CALENDAR GERMANY 2023: A PLETE CSD LIST OF 60+ PRI EVENTS
* nazi on lgbt parade *
The Nazi state, which was obssed wh fg a racially homogeno “people’s muny, ” relied on both a regular penal system, as well as the extrajudicial world of ncentratn mps. It was part and parcel of tersectg systems of anti-Semism, misogyny, racism, homophobia and transphobia that ensnared lns of victims. ” Hirschfeld, who was openly gay, sought not to pathologize the people he terviewed, but stead to foster a greater unrstandg of his own muny.
Photograph: Attila Kisbenek/AFP Thoands of Hungarians braved srchg heat for the annual Pri march Budapt on Saturday, prottg agast ernment ntrols over public displays by the LGBT mister Viktor Orban’s ernment promot a Christian-nservative agenda and 2021 banned “display and promotn of homosexualy” books and films accsible by unr-18s spe strong cricism om rights groups and the European Unn. Neher anisers nor the ernment gave a number for the marchers, though wns timated about 10, ads for the Pri para were only allowed to be aired late at night, wh most channels not takg the risk at all, Hungarian news se this week, Hungary's send-largt bookseller received a rerd fe for sellg a book that picts homosexualy whout closed wrappg. 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’).
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.