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Contents:

• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• THE UNSPEAKABLE TORTURE OF GAY MEN AT THE HANDS OF THE MORMON CHURCH – (VIO)
• ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA
• 'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE
• 9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE
• GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
• HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG
• LOUISIANA MAN USED GRDR TO KIDNAP, TORTURE GAY MEN, PROSECUTORS SAY

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

There’s a creepy, homoerotic-horror feel to the film, and Rubenste mak a likable, good-lookg lead- which mak what happens to him all the more upsettg. He travels to the untry to meet his boyiend’s mother who had no ia her ad son was gay or had a lover, and the sry brother Francis (Pierre-Yv Cardal). There is a new one beg filmed wh the German actor Thomas Kretschmann who played the gay nnible Grimm Love.

Our rearch has found that the last five years, medil practners at least eight untri -- Cameroon, Egypt, Kenya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and Zambia -- have nducted such "tts" on men and transgenr women acced of homosexual, sometim armed wh a prosecutor's orr, take "spects" to a forensic doctor or a general practner, who serts fgers and sometim objects to the an to terme s "tone.

THE UNSPEAKABLE TORTURE OF GAY MEN AT THE HANDS OF THE MORMON CHURCH – (VIO)

The anizatn has stated that at least 15 medil ndns, rangg om nstipatn to Parkson's disease, n e ditns siar to those that some doctors see as signs of homosexualy, such as a loose anal sphcter. 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. It is important to note that not all of the men arrted and nvicted unr Paragraph 175 intified as gay.

However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men.

Already the mid- to late-neteenth century, there were ditns of nascent and growg gay muni Germany.

ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA

Among the terms were “gleichgchlechtlich” (“same-sex oriented”) and “homosexuell” (“homosexual”). The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”).

The newer slang word “schwul” (often translated to English as “gay”) was also creasgly popular among certa groups. 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. It was the relatively eeg atmosphere of the Weimar Republic that gay muni and works grew and veloped unprecented ways.

'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE

Some joed “iendship leagu” (Frndschaftsverbän), groups that polilly and socially anized gay men, lbian women, and others. 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. They actively tried to build a sense of muny among gay men, and clud personal ads and rmatn about gay meetg plac.

Part of this nmnatn was a rejectn of the era’s open exprsns of sexualy, cludg the visibily of gay muni. However, Röhm’s posn the Nazi learship did not temper the movement’s nmnatn of homosexualy and gay muni. Shortly thereafter, they sought to dismantle the visible gay cultur and works that had veloped durg the Weimar Republic.

9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE

However, ci like Berl and Hamburg, some tablished gay bars were able to rema open until the mid-1930s. Nohels, the Nazi closur and creased police surveillance ma far more difficult for gay men to nnect wh each other.

Another early actn unrtaken by the Nazi regime was the elimatn of gay newspapers, journals, and publishg ho. 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. Those arrted clud a number of gay men, some of whom were imprisoned the regime’s early ncentratn mps.

Three events the years 1934–1936 radilized the Nazi regime’s mpaign agast homosexualy and led to more systematic opprsn of gay men. 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.

GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP

In the Nazis’ unrstandg, the men were “homosexual” (“homosexuell”) offenrs and th crimals and enemi of the state. In the mid- to late 1930s, the police raid bars and other meetg plac that they believed to be popular wh gay men.

The language people ed nunciatns mak clear that the Germans tend to agree wh Nazi attus towards homosexualy.

In rarer s, the Kripo or the Gtapo would send a man directly to a ncentratn mp as a “homosexual” (“homosexuell”) offenr.

HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG

Between 5, 000 and 15, 000 men were imprisoned ncentratn mps as “homosexual” (“homosexuell”) offenrs. For example, gay men tegorized by the Nazi regime as Aryan had far more optns than those tegorized as Jews or Roma (Gypsi).

But the end of the war and the feat of the Nazi regime did not necsarily brg a sense of liberatn for gay men. 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.

LOUISIANA MAN USED GRDR TO KIDNAP, TORTURE GAY MEN, PROSECUTORS SAY

Nohels, scholars have sought to document gay men’s experienc, g police, urt, and ncentratn mp rerds. The efforts of scholars and German gay rights anizatns have helped to brg the persecutn of gay men unr the Nazis to the public eye. In the 1990s, the German ernment acknowledged “persecuted homosexuals” (“verfolgten Homosexuellen”) as victims of the Nazi regime.