On Holot Memorial Day, we exame how the Nazi pk triangle beme a symbol for gay and LGBT+ rights.
Contents:
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
- THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- HOLOT MEMORIAL DAY: HOW THE NAZI PK TRIANGLE BEME A FIANT SYMBOL OF GAY RIGHTS
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy and persecuted gay men between 1933 and 1945. * nazi gay uniform *
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. It is important to note that not all of the men arrted and nvicted unr Paragraph 175 intified as gay.
However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men.
Gay men Germany were not a monolhic group, nor did the Nazi regime view them as such. For example, gay men active anti-Nazi polil movements risked beg arrted as polil opponents. Already the mid- to late-neteenth century, there were ditns of nascent and growg gay muni Germany.
THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
Pk triangl were origally ed ncentratn mps to intify gay men. * nazi gay uniform *
Among the terms were “gleichgchlechtlich” (“same-sex oriented”) and “homosexuell” (“homosexual”). The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”). The newer slang word “schwul” (often translated to English as “gay”) was also creasgly popular among certa groups.
Gay muni and works Germany ntued to grow and velop durg the Weimar Republic (1918–1933). 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.
It was the relatively eeg atmosphere of the Weimar Republic that gay muni and works grew and veloped unprecented ways.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Urban Outfters' e of symbols remiscent of Nazi opprsn on home r has sparked outrage gay and Jewish muni here the Bay Area, and around the world. * nazi gay uniform *
Some joed “iendship leagu” (Frndschaftsverbän), groups that polilly and socially anized gay men, lbian women, and others. 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. They actively tried to build a sense of muny among gay men, and clud personal ads and rmatn about gay meetg plac.
Part of this nmnatn was a rejectn of the era’s open exprsns of sexualy, cludg the visibily of gay muni.
Some proment Nazis, cludg Aled Rosenberg and Herich Himmler, were clearly homophobic. However, Röhm’s posn the Nazi learship did not temper the movement’s nmnatn of homosexualy and gay muni. Shortly thereafter, they sought to dismantle the visible gay cultur and works that had veloped durg the Weimar Republic.
HOLOT MEMORIAL DAY: HOW THE NAZI PK TRIANGLE BEME A FIANT SYMBOL OF GAY RIGHTS
The Nazi dictatorship policed, prosecuted, and ultimately murred thoands of gay men durg s 12 years of le. * nazi gay uniform *
One of the Nazis’ first actns agast gay muni was to close gay bars and other meetg spots.
However, ci like Berl and Hamburg, some tablished gay bars were able to rema open until the mid-1930s. Nohels, the Nazi closur and creased police surveillance ma far more difficult for gay men to nnect wh each other. Another early actn unrtaken by the Nazi regime was the elimatn of gay newspapers, journals, and publishg ho.