Gay Men unr the Nazi Regime | Holot Encyclopedia

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• THE HORRIFIC NAZI TREATMENT OF GAYS — THE SAD STORY OF PK MEN“THE NAZIS STUCK 25 CENTIMETERS OF WOOD UP MY ASS”PETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·5 M READ·JUL 22, 2021--4SHAREGAY PRISONERS A NAZI NCENTRATN MP, WEARG A PK TRIANGLE (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS NAZI NCENTRATN MPS WAS CEL AND DISGTG. YET, THERE WAS A STE OF PRISONERS WHO WERE NSIRED THE LOWT OF THE LOW BY THE MP GUARDS AND EVEN BY THE FELLOW PRISONERS — GAY MEN.THE TREATMENT OF THE GAYS THE NAZI NCENTRATN MPS WAS TLY HORRIFIC. GAY MEN WERE ED FOR MEDIL EXPERIMENTS AND AS SHOOTG TARGETS. THE GUARDS WOULD AIM FOR THE PK TRIANGL ON THEIR CHTS THAT SYMBOLIZED THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN.THEY WERE TORTURED, EXPERIMENTED ON, AND RIDICULED. THEY WERE BEATEN TO ATH BY THEIR FELLOW PRISONERS. THEY RECEIVED THE MOST DANGERO TASK THE MP’S STONE QUARRI AND FACTORI.“THE NAZIS STUCK 25 CENTIMETERS OF WOOD UP MY ASS.”— PIERRE SEEL, A GAY HOLOT SURVIVORTHE NOTOR PARAGRAPH 175
• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• CLASSIL MIC AND FETISH UNE HISTORIL CENTER OF GAY CULTURE
• AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
• NICKY CRANE: THE SECRET DOUBLE LIFE OF A GAY NEO-NAZI
• GAY LEATHER SCENE TON DOWN FROM HARD-CORE TO DRS-UP
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

THE HORRIFIC NAZI TREATMENT OF GAYS — THE SAD STORY OF PK MEN“THE NAZIS STUCK 25 CENTIMETERS OF WOOD UP MY ASS”PETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·5 M READ·JUL 22, 2021--4SHAREGAY PRISONERS A NAZI NCENTRATN MP, WEARG A PK TRIANGLE (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS NAZI NCENTRATN MPS WAS CEL AND DISGTG. YET, THERE WAS A STE OF PRISONERS WHO WERE NSIRED THE LOWT OF THE LOW BY THE MP GUARDS AND EVEN BY THE FELLOW PRISONERS — GAY MEN.THE TREATMENT OF THE GAYS THE NAZI NCENTRATN MPS WAS TLY HORRIFIC. GAY MEN WERE ED FOR MEDIL EXPERIMENTS AND AS SHOOTG TARGETS. THE GUARDS WOULD AIM FOR THE PK TRIANGL ON THEIR CHTS THAT SYMBOLIZED THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN.THEY WERE TORTURED, EXPERIMENTED ON, AND RIDICULED. THEY WERE BEATEN TO ATH BY THEIR FELLOW PRISONERS. THEY RECEIVED THE MOST DANGERO TASK THE MP’S STONE QUARRI AND FACTORI.“THE NAZIS STUCK 25 CENTIMETERS OF WOOD UP MY ASS.”— PIERRE SEEL, A GAY HOLOT SURVIVORTHE NOTOR PARAGRAPH 175

” Last October, he feated six other nttants a petn to be crowned as such at the Eagle NYC, one of the world’s most endurg gatherg-plac for gay men of the leather annual search for Mr. The impet of the 1969 Stonewall rts transformed the pub to a leather the aroma si blends leather, sweat and bleach, the Eagle isn’t your typil gay bar. For several years out of llege, Q led what he scribed as a “very tight, gay, whe picket fence” liftyle wh his boyiend and his boyiend’s son.

” Now focg on not lettg heteronormativy fe him, Q enjoys beg around “male energy a way that is uniquely, exprsly, and totally gay. “The Nazis stuck 25 centimeters of wood up my ass”Gay prisoners a Nazi ncentratn mp, wearg a pk triangle (Image: Wikimedia Commons)The treatment of prisoners Nazi ncentratn mps was cel and disgtg. Yet, there was a ste of prisoners who were nsired the lowt of the low by the mp guards and even by the fellow prisoners — gay treatment of the gays the Nazi ncentratn mps was tly horrific.

”— Pierre Seel, a gay Holot survivorThe notor Paragraph 175Graphs wh the number of nvictns due to Paragraph 175 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)In 1871, the law known as Paragraph 175 me to force the German Empire. (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.

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

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. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTberl dispatchFolsom Europe, a five-day ftival of ncerts and street parti, celebrat gay life, the leather scene and hard-won eedoms Mucha for The New York TimBERLIN — A hh fell over the hundreds of kksters gathered the pews of the Twelve Apostl Church Berl when the cellist, clad head-to-toe black leather, took a seat ont of the altar and began to play the back of the room, hers om the nun-themed drag troupe the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence watched him, the cellist was done, a leather-clad anist played Johann Sebastian Bach’s Prelu C major.

CLASSIL MIC AND FETISH UNE HISTORIL CENTER OF GAY CULTURE

Neher of the Amerin versns, however, has the over-the-top reputatn of Folsom Europe, which gets s rnal and cultural chet om Berl, a cy whose vibrant year-round night-life draws everyone om gay sex tourists to Brish bachelorette parti. ”The centerpiece of Folsom Europe is a street fair that turns Schöneberg to a sort of kky twalk, where thoands of elaborately drsed participants — mostly gay, bisexual and transgenr men — drk, shop and show off their look. Was found, they said, out of a sire to celebrate gay life and the leather scene Berl, which has boomed the years sce the ftival began.

In Schöneberg, gay bars have been joed by a crop of high-end fetish shops that sell bpoke leather outfs and $150 off-the-rack wh many thgs Germany, the weight of history seemed pable even the rnival atmosphere of Folsom, which was held jt a few blocks om a memorial to the gay victims of the eedoms celebrated by the ftival began to be rved out over 150 years ago, when German rearchers ed the word “homosexualy” and began to discs beg gay not as a personal moral failg but as a naturally occurrg phenomenon, acrdg to the historian Robert Mucha for The New York Mucha for The New York TimGermany was also home to what Mr.

AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI

Beachy argu may be the first public g out, the morn sense of the term, when the lawyer Karl Herich Ulrichs argued for the crimalizatn of homosexualy before an 1867 gatherg of the Associatn of German Jurists and a seri of pamphlets wrten unr his real name. ”The sexologist Magn Hirschfeld, who found the world’s first gay rights anizatn, also lived and worked nearby until his anizatn was ransacked by Nazis who forced him to exile. More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 8 of the New York edn wh the headle: Mic and Fetish Une a Center of Gay Culture.

NICKY CRANE: THE SECRET DOUBLE LIFE OF A GAY NEO-NAZI

That was, until I heard of an event lled Fascatn, which tak place the basement of Jacqu Cabaret, a staple Boston's gay nightlife scene and one of the olst drag bars the Uned Stat. Not only was I ready for the novelty that would arise om this bear/leather/kk event, but I also need a year of g out, I was growg tired of the same old Boston gay scene.

GAY LEATHER SCENE TON DOWN FROM HARD-CORE TO DRS-UP

I thought I was makg new iends who were terted hangg out wh me bee I'm the smartt, olt, funnit, and most humble person the existence of gaykd; but sadly that wasn't the se. Between the rejectns and unwelg atmosphere of gay scen, the homonormativy of spac I'd been to, and the fact that my worth as a queer man seemed solely rooted my appearance, I wasn't yet feelg okay wh beg queer. I didn't know at the time, but I need to fd a subculture wh the gay muny that would embrace night of the party, I drsed up a full leather daddy outf.

Whisnant:As early as the turn of the century, Berl's gay scene was attractg such notoriety that equently was mentned tourist lerature, liftg up the cy's gay scene as proof of the evils of urban life and the dangers of morny; them, Berl beme the untry's Sodom and Gomorrah put together, a sure sign of the land's the stag of Berl, the Tiller Girls showed off their legs, dancg a Rockett-style performance that amazed and tillated spectators. "Diverse, but DividMagn Hirschfeld, a Jewish German physician, sexologist and pneerg gay rights advote, was well acquated wh Berl's scene and mented on the diversy among the bars. By far the most famo was the Eldorado a nightclub whose ftive atmosphere attracted not only homosexuals but also artists, thors, celebri, and tourists wantg to admire a piece of "nt" Berl or tch a glimpse of someone Lbian Club SceneLbians uld also be found some of the bars that were voted mostly to gay men [and were] often seen the larger clubs of the 1920s, such as the Topp and the Eldorado.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

The Dorian Gray, one of the olst and bt-known gay clubs by the Weimar era, had a special night set asi for the turn of the century, there were also a handful of exclively lbian bars the cy. The atmosphere was generally refed; the lightg was soft and sentimental mic played the of the most famo was Chez Ma Belle Sor on Marburger Strasse, rated Greek-style and furnished wh private booths, where upl uld take refuge behd the gay bars, many of the lbian bars were segregated somewhat by class.

"Gay and Lbian BallsBerl's var homosexual tablishments beme famo for the elaborate gay balls that they would throw on regular ocsns. One French observer of the cy around the turn of the century noted that gay balls were held often several tim a week different clubs durg the ftive season between October and Easter. They would s down to eat at tabl led wh flowers; the director, drsed a "gay velvet jacket, " would greet the guts and give a short dner, the tabl would be put away, and the orchtra would beg playg waltz and other lively dancg mic while the upl would dance through the night.