My Gay Prison Gang Fights Neo-Nazis | The Marshall Project

Contents:

• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY ARYAN NATNS MEMBERS ARE THE FRGE OF THE FRGE
• AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
• GAY ARYAN NATNAL-SOCIALISTS
• GAY ARYAN SKHEADS
• GAY ARYAN SKHEADS WORLDWI
• OXYMORONS: GAY NAZI, GAY ARYAN, GAY SUPREMACIST
• MY GAY PRISON GANG FIGHTS NEO-NAZIS
• HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM
• GAY ARYAN SKHEAD (GASH)
• GAY MEN

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

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. The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”).

GAY ARYAN NATNS MEMBERS ARE THE FRGE OF THE FRGE

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.

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. In a further latn, the Nazis ed new laws and police practic to arrt and ta whout trial a limed number of gay men begng late 1933 and early 1934. Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung).

The notorly homophobic Himmler saw both homosexualy and abortn as threats to the German birth rate and th to the fate of the German people. Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175. For the first time, gay men who had suffered at the hands of the Nazis beme eligible for moary pensatn om the German ernment for jtic perpetrated agast them.

AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI

A few years later, May 2008, the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Nazism (Denkmal für die im Natnalsozialism verfolgten Homosexuellen) was unveiled nearby Tiergarten park central Berl. The members of this ty subculture on the radil right — maly men who hab Web chat rooms like "Gay Aryan Ristance" — jt n't seem to get any rpect.

GAY ARYAN NATNAL-SOCIALISTS

After all, the real Nazis murred thoands of gay men and lbians, and most people on the morn whe supremacist right act pretty much as if they'd like to follow su. Siar msag appear on s like Gays Agast Semism, and pecially chat rooms wh nam such as "Gay Nazi Sex, " "Gay Nazi WP [Whe Power] Fetishists, " "Gay Aryan Neo-Nazi Skheads, " "Nazi Mcle" and, most cur of all, "Diapered Skheads.

"The Gay Aryan Mann [sic] mt rise up, " wr one impassned man the "Gay Aryan Ristance" chat room, "and stroy ZOG [the "Znist Occupatn Government"] and end the Semic homophobia imposed on our Kultur! Hler's paraary SA storm troopers had a signifint gay element — until SS head Herich Himmler announced that all gays would be sent to ncentratn mps "and shot while tryg to pe.

GAY ARYAN SKHEADS

Small groups of gay neo-Nazis dotted the European landspe after the war, while Ameri homosexualy ntu to be a "secret of postwar Amerin Natnal Socialism, " acrdg to Jefey Kaplan, a well-known scholar of extremism.

Long-time neo-Nazi Harold Covgton, revealg his own homophobia, put this way: "[T]his movement has a distct tenncy to attract f------ bee of the leather-macho image that the System Jew media imparts to the SS uniform. After a heterosexual neo-Nazi chat room lled the "Racialist Club of Ameri" expelled "practicg homosexuals" recently, one gay man wrote, "[W]e will never w this war as long as they [straight neo-Nazis] are nsired the NORM of whe pri groups.

StuffAn Interview wh a Gay, Rsian Neo-NaziAs you might rell om beg wh sptg distance of any history textbook ever, the Führer and his Third Reich buddi weren't too keen on eher Rsians or homosexuals. Once upon a time — a day 1999, to be exact — a young gay Amerin and young gay Canadian shared a dream of foundg an anizatn which uned gay and straight skheads, creatg a new era tolerance and passn between racist heterosexuals and homosexuals their war agast non-wh. From this dream emerged the Amerin Ristance Corps (ARC), an anizatn wh two purpos: to rm “straight skheads that there were cent gay skheads already among them the movement who didn’t want validatn but simply wanted acceptance for their mon goals”, and to build “the amework for cultural revery and a brighter future for the whe race where all whe people n live and work harmony together whout the terference and hrance (sic) of the selfish terts of other rac.

GAY ARYAN SKHEADS WORLDWI

Nohels, across the world, groups of gay and lbian dividuals embrace iologi that are bigoted and seek to opprs others much the same way that LGBT persons have tradnally been opprsed: excln, vilifitn, even murr. In all fairns many skheads, gay and straight, do not subscribe to the racist views wh which this movement is equently associated, but a signifint portn do.

(Wyatt Powers, Executive Director of ARC, argu on the ARC webse that gay membership anti-Semic and racist groups is a natural rponse to the Jewish and black muni’ efforts to subjugate gays. Acrdg to Rosa von Prnheim’s documentary Men, Hero, and Gay Nazis (see excerpt on page 2 of this say), 10 to 15 percent of Germany’s Nazi extremists are gay.

OXYMORONS: GAY NAZI, GAY ARYAN, GAY SUPREMACIST

Kuhnen’s announcement that he was gay, along wh his publitn of a pamphlet advotg for the cln of gays the neo-Nazi movement, sparked a divisn the ranks of the var Nazi groups gag strength at the time. Typilly though, when one hears the words ‘Nazi’ and ‘homosexual’ njunctn, one thks of the atroci gays were forced to endure unr Hler’s regime. Even today, there is no clear number of how many gay people were killed; no unt was taken, so historians n only timate based on arrt numbers and ncentratn mp occupatns.

MY GAY PRISON GANG FIGHTS NEO-NAZIS

That historians and rearchers ignored for s the plight of homosexuals durg the Nazi reign allowed important rerds to be lost and rellectns to bee cloudy. Further, homosexualy was illegal Germany before Hler rose to power, so many who died the mps uld have long been the closet, even to their ath. Arrts for homosexualy rose om around 2, 000 between 1931 and 1933 to over 24, 000 between 1937 and 1939, acrdg to David Fernbach’s troductn to The Men wh the Pk Triangle.

In 1941, Heger’s mp got a new manr, nicknamed “Dtbag” by the prisoners, who broke up the “gay” bunkhoe and dispersed gay prisoners to the rt of the populatn, but his persecutn of gay prisoners was worse than his precsor’s. It would be absurd, then, to suggt that the same Nazi party that tortured and killed so many gays uld have been found wh the help of an army n by gay men or that Hler himself was gay. Many of the early meetgs took place gay bars and “pick-up jots”, cludg Berl’s Eldorado, where bisexual Karl Ernst and gay Pl Rohrbe, SA lears, ma many of the plans for the New Orr.

HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM

The two men attend the theater together, took long walks and hik, went on overnight mpg trips, vatned known gay getaways, and even bought matchg cloth. Although Machtan fails to tablish nclively that Hler was gay, he do make one important fact evint: Hler was fortable around gays, beg gay tablishments, and untg gay men as his iends. While there is no evince that Röhm any way protected the homosexual populatn, asi om his iends and lovers, is a fact that arrts for homosexualy didn’t rise until after Röhm’s executn 1934.

GAY ARYAN SKHEAD (GASH)

This is not to imply that gay men had ee reign before Röhm’s ath; social mor and ernment lerature nmned homosexualy, but ltle actn was taken agast gays. Havg tablished a plan for the perfect Aryan race wh Himmler, Hler had no more e for the gay muny, even those who had helped him his rise to power.

Gays and lbians were els the geic manipulatn need to create the master race, so they, like Jews, gypsi, Pol, the disabled, and so many others, were expendable.

What the Nazis did to the homosexuals of Europe pails number pared to other groups, and all those who were victims of the Nazi regime suffered unimagably. Still, Hler’s associatn wh the gay muny is noteworthy that, among those persecuted unr his le, is only wh the gay muny and the Catholic Church that he had extend exposure.

GAY MEN

It is easy to speculate about Hler’s sexualy, the number of gays Hler’s service, and the extent to which Hler ed his gay associat before stg them asi, but we will never tly know what was the md of the madman. To unrstand why gay and lbian dividuals would jo groups that appear to vlate their self-tert, one mt unrstand why anyone would jo so-lled “hate groups”. However, the ter plays a more important role for gay racists, acrdg to Waldner, Mart, and Caper the Journal of Polil and Milary Soclogy.