Gay man tortured and killed Cancún after revealg he was livg wh HIV

Contents:

• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY MAN TORTURED AND KILLED CANCúN AFTER REVEALG HE WAS LIVG WH HIV
• GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
• HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG
• ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA
• 'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE
• CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ‘GAY PURGE’: A 4-YEAR TIMELE OF ABDUCTN, TORTURE AND MURR

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power.

However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men. The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”).

In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach. Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works.

GAY MAN TORTURED AND KILLED CANCúN AFTER REVEALG HE WAS LIVG WH HIV

In a further latn, the Nazis ed new laws and police practic to arrt and ta whout trial a limed number of gay men begng late 1933 and early 1934.

Three events the years 1934–1936 radilized the Nazi regime’s mpaign agast homosexualy and led to more systematic opprsn of gay men.

Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung). The notorly homophobic Himmler saw both homosexualy and abortn as threats to the German birth rate and th to the fate of the German people.

GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP

Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175. The efforts of scholars and German gay rights anizatns have helped to brg the persecutn of gay men unr the Nazis to the public eye.

HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG

In the 1990s, the German ernment acknowledged “persecuted homosexuals” (“verfolgten Homosexuellen”) as victims of the Nazi regime. For the first time, gay men who had suffered at the hands of the Nazis beme eligible for moary pensatn om the German ernment for jtic perpetrated agast them. A few years later, May 2008, the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Nazism (Denkmal für die im Natnalsozialism verfolgten Homosexuellen) was unveiled nearby Tiergarten park central Berl.

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ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA

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For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsGay men are beg electrocuted and stng up by their legs a new wave of torture Chechnya, acrdg to a human rights Rights Watch said terviewed four gay men who claimed they fled the nservative, predomantly Mlim regn after police allegedly beat and shocked them wh electric currents while they were stng up by their ternatnal group, headquartered New York, said the acunts ma by the men, who were allegedly taed for between three and 20 days between December 2018 and Febary 2019, were nsistent wh a plat an LGBT+ activist filed , January this year, a warng appeared on social media urgg all vulnerable men and women to flee Chechnya as was feared a new “anti-gay purge” was 2017, activists said more than 100 gay men were taed and tortured Chechnya durg a “purge”, and that some were killed.

'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE

LGBT+ rights around the globeShow all 9There was no immediate ment on the report om Chechen officials, who rejected the allegatns Rights Watch said a report on Wednday that the men terviewed reported beg beaten, huiated and held for up to 20 days wh limed four said terrogators also mand rmatn about other gay men Chechnya, acrdg to the man said he had been livg elsewhere but returned to Chechnya to attend a fay weddg. Support ee-thkg journalism and attend Inpennt eventsHuman Rights Watch said thought the 2017 mistreatment of gay men was not aquately Loksha, the anisatn’s associate director for Europe and Central Asia, said: “The absolute impuny for the anti-gay purge of 2017 embolns the perpetrators.

A teenager who was horrifilly tortured after meetg someone on gay datg app Grdr has reunted the oral as he prs for hate crime Whe, then 18, was throttled, had his wrists cut and neck sliced a bathtub of bloody water June 2020.

CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ‘GAY PURGE’: A 4-YEAR TIMELE OF ABDUCTN, TORTURE AND MURR

The attack happened when he met Chance Sene, 19, for a first date, he, who is om Louisiana and is openly gay, was physilly srred for life. —Warng: This report ntas graphic and upsettg tails—Whe and Sene met on Grdr, which is primarily ed by gay and bisexual men, and had been msagg for about a month before meetg up at Sene's home.