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
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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.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS
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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.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
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.