The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy and persecuted gay men between 1933 and 1945.
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 has all that virily,” Steve Bannon told The Spectator of London. “He also had amazg fashn sense, right, that whole thg wh the uniforms.” Social media feeds l up wh quips about the homoerotic subtext of Bannon’s Msoli csh. This may have been an unexpected stance of a nnectn ma between fascism and gay masculism, but is hardly whout precent. If fascism has had an allure for gay men, is anti-egalarianism that provis the nnective tissue—the belief that homosexualy belongs to an ele ste. * gay nazi uniforms *
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.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS
Pk triangl were origally ed ncentratn mps to intify gay men. * gay nazi uniforms *
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.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
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. 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.