Gay Men unr the Nazi Regime - Photographs | Holot Encyclopedia

Contents:

• THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

He was received that day wh meras, bouquets of flowers, and a greetg om the openly gay former mayor of Berl, Kls seven s earlier, Brazda survived a spell Buchenwald, the ncentratn mp to which he was sent havg twice been arrted for vlatg Paragraph 175, the German law prohibg male homosexual activy. Published 2016, Whisnant’s book subverts the notn that the only queer people targeted durg the Third Reich were gay men, suggtg stead that the Nazi party’s broar terpretatn of Paragraph 175 meant that a small portn of terned dividuals were what we today would ll genr-nonnformg or trans. What’s more, Whisnant pots out that while lbian women were not necsarily arrted bee of their sexualy, that is neher to say that some lbian women did not end up ncentratn mps, nor that the homophobia of the time didn’t impact them more broadly.

”Nazi-era propaganda, like this 1933 electn poster, often prented an ialized, homoerotic-tged view of ArchiveWhatever illn of acceptance queer members of the Nazi party might have felt the early 1930s vanished the aftermath of a pivotal event lled The Night of the Long Kniv. Ernst Röhm, for a time arguably the send most powerful Nazi lear, was gay—as were several senr figur his paraary anizatn, the Sturmabteilung (SA) Vllet/Getty ImagBeno Msoli, undated (cir 1930s)In the postwar perd, Michael Kühnen, a proment German neo-Nazi who died of AIDS, noted that homosexuals were “pecially well-sued for our task, bee they do not want ti to wife, children and fay.

The Atrian far-right lear Jörg Hair, a married fay man, died a dnk-drivg accint on his way home om a gay bar, while the most famo book by the French Natnal Front supporter Rend Cam is Tricks, a chronicle of his one-night stands wh men. A ntemporary Amerin figure who has married a macho gay male inty wh ultra-reactnary polics is Jack Donovan, a neo-pagan advote of “anarcho-fascism” and a lear of the Wolv of Vland, a Norse revivalist “tribe” whose members gather forts to smear mud on themselv and sacrifice animals. O’Meara, thor of The Homo & the Negro, which, acrdg to s publisher, “argu that the Far Right nnot effectively fend Wtern civilizatn unls checks s premis about homosexualy and non-sexual forms of male bondg, which are unrmed not jt by liberals and femists, but also by Juo-Christian ‘fay valu’ advot.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS

Although the figur have occupied, to a il extent, extreme pol on the spectm of gay male inty, om fey to butch, what they have mon is a llo disregard for those whom they nsir their social, physil, tellectual, racial, or cultural ferrs.

Dpe this fairly obv empiril tth, fascism’s flourishg predomantly male is has long led mentators to pos that there is an trsic homoeroticism fascism’s veneratn of masculy and rrpondg disda for femy, even that there is somethg homosexual about fascism self. ” While “left-wg movements have tend to be unisex, and asexual their imagery, ” fascist inography holds a particular allure for gay men, she wrote, as “extreme right-wg movements, however puranil and reprsive the reali they her , have an erotic surface” that ializ the male an erotic attractn to policized masculy exists among only a small portn of right-wgers who happen to be gay. The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hler Terror, a Communist-produced tract that was translated to two dozen languag, alleged that the Dutchman found guilty of burng down the German parliament 1933, Mar van r Lubbe, was gay—a “va, publicy-seekg tool” of “homosexual SA lears.

Langer hypothized on the supposed attractn fascism held for homosexuals:The fact that unrneath they feel themselv to be different and ostracized om normal social ntacts ually mak them easy nverts to a new social philosophy which do not discrimate agast them.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Havg ltle to lose to beg wh, they n afford to take chanc which others would rea om the aftermath of World War II, the theorists of the Frankfurt School—themselv refuge om Nazi Germany—further veloped this psychologil theory of male homosexual affy wh fascism. But jt as today many gay people see their sexual orientatn as nducive to a left-wg polil inty, acrdg to which membership a margalized mory group stills one wh a progrsive social nscience, so for a much smaller number (almost exclively of gay men) has homosexualy been central, or at least not cintal, to why they have placed themselv on the extreme oppose end of the polil spectm. And for this peculiar hort, that polil posng seems to hge upon the same axis of affect as attracts many gay people to the left: whereas the latter preach a love for the mass, the former feel an aversn to them.

*This belief that homosexualy belongs to an ele ste, whose select adherents are members of an exclive aterny existg above the heterosexual mass and sted for greatns, is a theme regnizable several proment homosexual wrers and figur throughout history and across cultur. Lawrence exprsed a hatred for mocracy (“Liberty, Equaly, and Fraterny, ” he wrote, was a “three-fanged serpent”) and posed a Nietzschean unrstandg of same-sex relatns, ntendg that “nearly every man that approach greatns tends to homosexualy, whether he adms or not. ” Bemoang the mise of dandyism, a way of life hardly exclive to homosexuals but one disproportnately adopted by them, Blaire had blamed, “the risg ti of mocracy, which spreads everywhere and rc everythg to the same level, ” which “is daily rryg away the last champns of human pri.