Evil twks and gay gangsters: why we need to remember history’s horrid homosexuals | Culture | The Guardian

Contents:

• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• HLER WAS GAY - AND KILLED TO HI , BOOK SAYS
• WH ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW, GAY CONSERVATIV FD THEIR INNER ERNST RöHM
• EVIL TWKS AND GAY GANGSTERS: WHY WE NEED TO REMEMBER HISTORY’S HORRID HOMOSEXUALS
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

A man  make-up and pearls nmng transgenr people may seem untertuive, but Milo Yiannopoulos is hardly the first gay reactnary. (Earlier, the Social Democrats, one of the few parti to mpaign for the repeal of Paragraph 175, showed self willg to gay-ba Röhm. As Eleanor Hanck explas, Röhm, his face srred om war wounds, strsed a hyper-masculy to unteract ntemporary views of homosexualy as feme.

His open homosexualy may have threatened the psychologil secury of some other Natnal Socialists, creatg a form of ‘male homosexual panic. '” 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?

Even before Ernst Röhm was murred, the Nazis had begun crackg down on homosexualy, banng anizatns, burng books, and arrtg the first of some 100, 000. 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. Zehnter moved right-wg polil circl, too, and all were assumed to be part of the same homosexual, to answer the qutn, if Röhm’s homosexualy was a secret, was an open secret.

HLER WAS GAY - AND KILLED TO HI , BOOK SAYS

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. 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.

WH ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW, GAY CONSERVATIV FD THEIR INNER ERNST RöHM

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? 'Hler himself never nmned homosexualy, but he allowed the persecutn of gays orr to disguise his own te lours, ' Machtan says.

The manr of the Nazi Stormtroopers and Hler’s iend, Röhm was wily known to be gay, but still wield nsirable power wh the Nazi hierarchy. That was until the Night of the Long Kniv, when Hler had him executed, which the party jtified based on his sexualy as cracked down on gays throughout Germany.

EVIL TWKS AND GAY GANGSTERS: WHY WE NEED TO REMEMBER HISTORY’S HORRID HOMOSEXUALS

Röhm embodi a longstandg archetype the LGBT world: the gay man who jos an anti-gay right-wg polil movement for a taste of power, wealth and fame, obliv to the whispers behd his back and mistakg phony polens for tolerance or even acceptance. Few thgs exemplify that more than gay Republins’ fense of Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn Bill, also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which Gov. In a March 14 lumn, David Leatherwood, head of Log Cab’s Tampa, Florida, chapter, went so far as to ll DeSantis spokwoman Christa Phaw a “gay in.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

The “leftist gays stormed the Florida Capol buildg” and were “mandg krgartners have accs to state-sanctned lsons on pronoun propaganda and gay butt sex, ” Leatherwood wrote a dispatch om whatever alternate universe he habs, also referrg to opponents of the bill as “groomers. The real ncern is that the law would create a chillg effect by empowerg parents to sue schools bee a teacher mentned a same-sex spoe or a stunt’s gay parents, while also disurag LGBT stunts om seekg mental or physil health servic as uld rult schools havg to reveal their sexual orientatn or genr inty to their parents. In rponse to the law and opposn to , notably by Disney, “groomers” mem have spread rapidly as a way to exprs thly veiled homophobia, much as QAnon was already a th veil for antisemism.

” But havg followed the Christian right and s asslt on LGBT people for years, I n say that when those people talk about “the homosexual agenda, ” they make no such distctns — they see every one of as an enemy to stroy. That a gay man would help perpetuate such a stctive nard about his own kd says a lot about what the Log Cab Republins have evolved to sce their foundg California the 1970s, rponse to the natnwi anti-LGBT backlash at the time.