Ernst Röhm, The Hight-Rankg Gay Nazi - JSTOR Daily

Contents:

• CHELSEA HANDLER HELPS LLEGE SWIMMER ACCEPT HE’S GAY
• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• ROMMEL GAY CALIFORNIA

CHELSEA HANDLER HELPS LLEGE SWIMMER ACCEPT HE’S GAY

In the followg weeks, Rommel learned a gay swimmer wasn't new for Hope —€” there were two gay upperclassmen —€” but for Rommel, this marked a change. Rommel's hatns about tellg people he's gay before llege prevented him om velopg close iendships most of his life.

Though Rommel had been around gay men sce he started dancg serly, sex —€” and particularly gay sex —€” were taboo topics his Christian home. He told his mom he's gay for the first time the wter of his sophomore year. Nathan's lack of operatn wh the therapist led to his mom endg the unselg after about five ssns, and would be years before they talked aga about him beg gay.

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

From his sophomore year forward, Rommel intified as gay, but he felt hant to be open about . Hope Farnsworth, a high school classmate of Rommel's, never saw or heard of him explicly tell anyone that he's gay.

As his relatnship wh Rose progrsed, Rommel cid to broach the topic of beg gay wh his parents, somethg he hadn't done sce therapy end two years earlier. Rommel put no qualifiers or rtrats on Sheldon after tellg her that he's gay, and he experienced a surprisg feelg as spread om one person to another that night. A man  make-up and pearls nmng transgenr people may seem untertuive, but Milo Yiannopoulos is hardly the first gay reactnary.

ROMMEL GAY CALIFORNIA

The se of Ernst Röhm, the hight-rankg gay Nazi, prents an tertg study the nstctn and ntament of masculy by the right.

Röhm opposed his party’s stand on Paragraph 175 of the German penal , which ma male homosexual acts illegal.

This ma some German homosexuals thk he might ultimately tone down the Nazi stance.