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Contents:

• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY DICTNARY GERMAN
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI

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. 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.

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). 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. 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.

GAY DICTNARY GERMAN

I was speakg to someone I’m iends wh onle and both of grew up wh a fair amount of German our liv; both of are cur (and me as a gay man) if there is any mon lgbt slang the German language like there is English?

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

Whisnant:As early as the turn of the century, Berl's gay scene was attractg such notoriety that equently was mentned tourist lerature, liftg up the cy's gay scene as proof of the evils of urban life and the dangers of morny; them, Berl beme the untry's Sodom and Gomorrah put together, a sure sign of the land's the stag of Berl, the Tiller Girls showed off their legs, dancg a Rockett-style performance that amazed and tillated spectators. "Diverse, but DividMagn Hirschfeld, a Jewish German physician, sexologist and pneerg gay rights advote, was well acquated wh Berl's scene and mented on the diversy among the bars. By far the most famo was the Eldorado a nightclub whose ftive atmosphere attracted not only homosexuals but also artists, thors, celebri, and tourists wantg to admire a piece of "nt" Berl or tch a glimpse of someone Lbian Club SceneLbians uld also be found some of the bars that were voted mostly to gay men [and were] often seen the larger clubs of the 1920s, such as the Topp and the Eldorado.

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

The Dorian Gray, one of the olst and bt-known gay clubs by the Weimar era, had a special night set asi for the turn of the century, there were also a handful of exclively lbian bars the cy.

The atmosphere was generally refed; the lightg was soft and sentimental mic played the of the most famo was Chez Ma Belle Sor on Marburger Strasse, rated Greek-style and furnished wh private booths, where upl uld take refuge behd the gay bars, many of the lbian bars were segregated somewhat by class. One French observer of the cy around the turn of the century noted that gay balls were held often several tim a week different clubs durg the ftive season between October and Easter.

GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI

They would s down to eat at tabl led wh flowers; the director, drsed a "gay velvet jacket, " would greet the guts and give a short dner, the tabl would be put away, and the orchtra would beg playg waltz and other lively dancg mic while the upl would dance through the night. Jody Skner’s work “Bezeichnungen für das Homosexuelle im Dtschen”, Die Bl Eule (1999) (Denomatns for Homosexual German), and wh the help of Rocío Laguía, Mos of the translatns Germany, Jody was so kd to give the two volum of his work that is our ma source for the realizatn of this dictnary. Rocío and María Cano helped wh the first translatns and terpretatns and th we found a lot of rogative words and exprsns, but also some that ed up a great sense of humor, even bety, bee they arose the LGBT muny self, who survived the slums and margal environments and who had the need to speak of the most outstandg topics this German Gay Dictnary is that of warmth wh the word warm, and do so for two reasons, the first, for a large number of words and exprsns has generated, and the send, bee s relatnship wh effemate men and wh those who fucked wh other men, go back to the Middle Ag or perhaps much further back time.

Wh this pejorative and antiquated idm was wanted to emphasize the femy of the gay people relatg them wh the first woman, acrdg to the Bible Eve, the same way that wh Adamstochter the masculy of lbians was remarked relatg them wh the first man, Adam, a time which the only referent was the mp people, people wh a genr exprsn that did not rrpond to their sex and that worked, not whout error, as a predictor of sexual orientatn. +HomosexuelleThe translatn to the English language of the word Homosexuelle is homosexual, a term ed by Karl Maria Benkert, the precursor of the fight for gay rights, which was then ed medice to name a false What is homosexual? Essentially those who were not Christians were heretics, and the, as animist trib that existed the current terrory of Bulgaria, they attributed all sorts of vic and ss, hence this is the orig of the word bugger and the relatn between hery and homosexual behavr.

+LeckermlThe first meang of Leckerml is a greedy person, however, the first part of the word Leck- is related to the cunnilg or anilg (rim job), so this exprsn n be ed as a slang for a homosexual person, both for gays and lbians.

+RosettenkrlerThe words Rose and Rosetten are slang words for the an, so Rosettenkrler has the meang of the one that als wh his partner’s an sex, for this reason, is ed as slang for the homosexual man that we uld translate to the English language as eyelets scratcher.

+SpatstecherIn the German language, when are ed exprsns whose first element is Spat- the ntext of homosexual men and male homosexualy, is metaphorilly speakg of the fec, sce Spat translated to the English language is spach, the vegetable, and all the exprsns are referrg to anal sexual activy.

The leral translatn of Spatstecher would be a skewer or spach knife, and we uld translate to English as is said that the term Spatstecher origat the Rotwelsch jargon at the begng of the 19th century and refers to the top homosexual man anal terurse. The Spatstecher is also documented several dialects, such as the one talked Frankfurt, which Spatstecher addn to homosexual man is also ed to refer to the own penis. Free-e photograph snned by Jdsteakley, download om wikipedia, rized, and is a German term rarely ed today, but is the precsor of the term homosexual, this se referrg to men.