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• THE HORRIFIC NAZI TREATMENT OF GAYS — THE SAD STORY OF PK MEN“THE NAZIS STUCK 25 CENTIMETERS OF WOOD UP MY ASS”PETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·5 M READ·JUL 22, 2021--4SHAREGAY PRISONERS A NAZI NCENTRATN MP, WEARG A PK TRIANGLE (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS NAZI NCENTRATN MPS WAS CEL AND DISGTG. YET, THERE WAS A STE OF PRISONERS WHO WERE NSIRED THE LOWT OF THE LOW BY THE MP GUARDS AND EVEN BY THE FELLOW PRISONERS — GAY MEN.THE TREATMENT OF THE GAYS THE NAZI NCENTRATN MPS WAS TLY HORRIFIC. GAY MEN WERE ED FOR MEDIL EXPERIMENTS AND AS SHOOTG TARGETS. THE GUARDS WOULD AIM FOR THE PK TRIANGL ON THEIR CHTS THAT SYMBOLIZED THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN.THEY WERE TORTURED, EXPERIMENTED ON, AND RIDICULED. THEY WERE BEATEN TO ATH BY THEIR FELLOW PRISONERS. THEY RECEIVED THE MOST DANGERO TASK THE MP’S STONE QUARRI AND FACTORI.“THE NAZIS STUCK 25 CENTIMETERS OF WOOD UP MY ASS.”— PIERRE SEEL, A GAY HOLOT SURVIVORTHE NOTOR PARAGRAPH 175
• THE 5 BEST COLOGNE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS COLOGNE
• GAY BERL: BIRTHPLACE OF A MORN INTY
• GAY COLOGNE TRAVEL GUI

THE HORRIFIC NAZI TREATMENT OF GAYS — THE SAD STORY OF PK MEN“THE NAZIS STUCK 25 CENTIMETERS OF WOOD UP MY ASS”PETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·5 M READ·JUL 22, 2021--4SHAREGAY PRISONERS A NAZI NCENTRATN MP, WEARG A PK TRIANGLE (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS NAZI NCENTRATN MPS WAS CEL AND DISGTG. YET, THERE WAS A STE OF PRISONERS WHO WERE NSIRED THE LOWT OF THE LOW BY THE MP GUARDS AND EVEN BY THE FELLOW PRISONERS — GAY MEN.THE TREATMENT OF THE GAYS THE NAZI NCENTRATN MPS WAS TLY HORRIFIC. GAY MEN WERE ED FOR MEDIL EXPERIMENTS AND AS SHOOTG TARGETS. THE GUARDS WOULD AIM FOR THE PK TRIANGL ON THEIR CHTS THAT SYMBOLIZED THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN.THEY WERE TORTURED, EXPERIMENTED ON, AND RIDICULED. THEY WERE BEATEN TO ATH BY THEIR FELLOW PRISONERS. THEY RECEIVED THE MOST DANGERO TASK THE MP’S STONE QUARRI AND FACTORI.“THE NAZIS STUCK 25 CENTIMETERS OF WOOD UP MY ASS.”— PIERRE SEEL, A GAY HOLOT SURVIVORTHE NOTOR PARAGRAPH 175

The gay scene town has two centr: the young and trendi go to all the bars and clubs around Rudolfpltaz-Schaafenstrasse and the olr, leather-scene guys hang out the Hmarkt-Mathiasstrasse the Altstadt.

Ex-Corner Bar, German This zy bar is the mother of all gay bars Cologne, the sense that is where all the pretty young thgs drk and flirt well to the wee small hours.

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Ruhrpott Bar, Pub, Contemporary © Seo Sngwon / Pixabay This fe and cktail bar is pretty new on the Cologne gay scene, but has quickly tablished self as a place to go wh great food and fantastic cktails. It’s one of the crazier gay bars Cologne, but then aga, kids the days… Wh regular karaoke nights, drag parti and a md-bogglg number of other themed evengs and dance parti, there’s always somethg worth seeg at Mumu. But actually, the first public LGBTQ+ rights prott took place Germany, over a century earlier, 1867—one year before the term ‘homosexualy’ was ed, German!

The Nazis ma more severe and imprisoned 10, 000 gay men (and some lbians, although they were not vered by Paragraph 175) ncentratn mps, where they were marked wh the pk triangle—and a majory died. But there is plenty to see today to remember the highs and lows of German LGBTQ+ history, om the Monument to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Natnal Socialism and the Schwul Mm (Gay Mm), both Berl, to the Dtsche Eiche bar and bathhoe Munich, where Freddie Mercury hung out the 1970s. And let’s not fet Bavaria’s gay (and/or queer) kg, Mad Ludwig, and his Wagnerian fantasy stle, Nschwanste—the spiratn for Disney’s Snow Whe’s Castle.

Germany ranks among the top gay-iendly vatn statns acrdg to the Spartac Gay Travel Inx 2018 due to the gay-iendly environment the major ci like Berl, Hamburg, and Cologne. Therefore, numero gay bars var areas around the cy centers offer the opportuny to meet lols and other visors om all over the world. Distant natural wonrs, famo metropolis, theme parks, gay-sports events and far-away-iends are great reasons to travel.

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“The Nazis stuck 25 centimeters of wood up my ass”Gay prisoners a Nazi ncentratn mp, wearg a pk triangle (Image: Wikimedia Commons)The treatment of prisoners Nazi ncentratn mps was cel and disgtg. Yet, there was a ste of prisoners who were nsired the lowt of the low by the mp guards and even by the fellow prisoners — gay treatment of the gays the Nazi ncentratn mps was tly horrific.

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And the general liberal, tolerant, and life-affirmg attu bursts out of lols on the first weekend of July when the Christopher Street Day, or gay pri para rolls through the cy. The ‘Bermuda Triangle’ around Schaafenstrasse has the hight ncentratn of gay bars, fés, and nightclubs, but the Hmarkt area is also popular. Memorial "to the gay and lbian victims of Natnal Socialism" Cologne: The scriptn on the left si of the monument (to the viewer's right om the angle picted) reads "Totgchlagen – Totgchwiegen" ("Stck Dead – Hhed Up").

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The pk triangle, renred hot pk as a gay pri and gay rights symbol, was origally renred pk and ed poted downward on a Nazi ncentratn mp badge to note homosexual men. Upon the rise of Adolf Hler, gay men and, to a lser extent, lbians, were two of the numero groups targeted by the Nazi Party and were ultimately among Holot victims. Begng 1933, gay anizatns were banned, scholarly books about homosexualy, and sexualy general, were burned, and homosexuals wh the Nazi Party self were murred.

Between 1933 and 1945, an timated 100, 000 men were arrted as homosexuals, of whom some 50, 000 were officially sentenced.

[1] It is unclear how many of the 5, 000 to 15, 000 eventually perished the mps, but leadg scholar Rüdiger Ltmann believ that the ath rate of homosexuals ncentratn mps may have been as high as 60%. After the war, the treatment of homosexuals ncentratn mps went unacknowledged by most untri, and some men were even re-arrted and imprisoned based on evince found durg the Nazi years.

It was not until the 1980s that ernments began to acknowledge this episo, and not until 2002 that the German ernment apologized to the gay muny. In late Febary 1933, as the moratg fluence of Ernst Röhm weakened, the Nazi Party lnched s purge of homosexual (gay, lbian, and bisexual; then known as homophile) clubs Berl, outlawed sex publitns, and banned anized gay groups. Hler ially protected Röhm om other elements of the Nazi Party which held his homosexualy to be a vlatn of the party's strong anti-gay policy.

Durg the Night of the Long Kniv 1934, a purge of those whom Hler emed threats to his power took place, he had Röhm murred and ed Röhm's homosexualy as a jtifitn to supprs outrage wh the ranks of the SA. Himmler had ially been a supporter of Röhm, argug that the charg of homosexualy agast him were manufactured by Jews.

In 1936, Himmler created the Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und Abtreibung (Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn). Nazi Germany thought of German gay men as agast the plan of creatg a "master race" and sought to force them to sexual and social nformy.

Gay men who would not change or feign a change their sexual orientatn were sent to ncentratn mps unr the "Extermatn Through Work" mpaign. More than one ln gay Germans were targeted, of whom at least 100, 000 were arrted and 50, 000 were servg prison terms as "nvicted homosexuals".

Such "anti-homosexual" laws were wispread throughout the wtern world until the 1960s and 1970s, so many gay men did not feel safe to e forward wh their stori until the 1970s when many so-lled "sodomy laws" were repealed. Lbians were not wily persecuted unr Nazi anti-gay laws, as was nsired easier to persua or force them to ply wh accepted heterosexual behavr. The first event that led towards the fight agast homosexualy Nazi Germany was the unifitn of the German state 1871 known as the Send Reich.

The Reichsgericht’s (Imperial Court of Jtice) led that a crimal homosexual act had to volve eher anal, oral, or tracral sex between two men.