Wh an Openly Gay Man at the Helm of the SA, Homosexuals Saw a Perd of Relative Tolerance Before Beg Persecuted the Third Reich. Sex Workers Experienced the Oppose Procs. Here's How the Two Are Lked
Contents:
- ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
- NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
- THE NAZIS TOLERATED GAYS. THEN EVERYTHG CHANGED
- WHY THE MYTH OF THE “GAY NAZI” IS BACK CIRCULATN
- GAY MEN
- THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
Ernst Röhm, the hight-rankg gay Nazi, prents an tertg study the nstctn and ntament of masculy by the right. * nazis gays *
A man make-up and pearls nmng transgenr people may seem untertuive, but Milo Yiannopoulos is hardly the first gay reactnary. 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.
NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
* nazis gays *
(Earlier, the Social Democrats, one of the few parti to mpaign for the repeal of Paragraph 175, showed self willg to gay-ba Röhm. As Eleanor Hanck explas, Röhm, his face srred om war wounds, strsed a hyper-masculy to unteract ntemporary views of homosexualy as feme.
THE NAZIS TOLERATED GAYS. THEN EVERYTHG CHANGED
Hler killed thoands of queer men. And Nazis were gay-lovg, how? * nazis gays *
” This aligned wh Nazi views of the homosocial Männerbund. Röhm suggted that the le between homosocial and homosexual, however, was potentially fluid.
WHY THE MYTH OF THE “GAY NAZI” IS BACK CIRCULATN
Hanck says that Röhm “challenged the privilegg of heterosexual over homosexual masculi.
His open homosexualy may have threatened the psychologil secury of some other Natnal Socialists, creatg a form of ‘male homosexual panic.
GAY MEN
'” She go further, wonrg if “the purge of the SA and the killg of Röhm reprented the leral objective rrelative for the supprsn and reprsn of the homosexual sir their own Nazism?
Even before Ernst Röhm was murred, the Nazis had begun crackg down on homosexualy, banng anizatns, burng books, and arrtg the first of some 100, 000.
Around 15, 000 gay people were sent to ncentratn mps, where some were experimented upon bizarre efforts to fd a “cure” for sexual orientatn, a forhadowg of Amerin psychologil and later fundamentalist efforts to try the same thg. Which didn’t stop burly Hler nfidante and head of the Nazi SA paraary wg Ernst Röhm, a not-terribly-closeted gay man, om equentg the tablishment. As the film explas, the SA had a strong homoerotic element, a disgt wh women and femy they somehow ed to jtify homosexualy – for a time, anyway.
THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
At a certa pot, Röhm’s iendship wh Hler uld only take him so far a Nazi regime creasgly set on eraditg homosexualy. Röhm is but one player this ncise, ftly told doc that the Eldorado as a lnchg pad to a broar story about beg gay Nazi Germany.