‘Eldorado’: Netflix Expos the Secret Gay History of Nazi Germany – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• THE NAZIS TOLERATED GAYS. THEN EVERYTHG CHANGED
• NEO-NAZI WHO TORTURED GAY PEOPLE VIRAL VIOS DI PRISON OF SUICI
• THE NAZI DOCTOR WHO EXPERIMENTED ON GAY PEOPLE – AND BRA HELPED TO PE JTICE
• FROM GAY NAZIS TO 'WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER': A CENTURY OF ARGUG ABOUT GAY PRI
• GAY HOLOT
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

'” 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?

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.

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

Hirschfeld, a groundbreakg sexologist, both gay and Jewish and therefore a prime target of Nazi Germany, was thankfully not prent when his stute was ransacked by mardg Nazi youth (here aga, there are photos). Here we experience the nce that thrived before the fall, at a hiaway for those whose differenc would soon mark them for prison, exile, or, many s, ath ( is timated that between 5, 000 and 15, 000 gay people died the ncentratn mps for vlatg Paragraph 175). In Augt 2016, Palmer — who is bt known for his off-Broadway show “Fabulo Divas of Broadway” and his role on the “Mighty Morph Power Rangers” — was performg at Edburgh Frge Ftival when he stumbled upon an article about the specific targetg of gay men and women unr Hler.

THE NAZIS TOLERATED GAYS. THEN EVERYTHG CHANGED

The play relat the story of Werner, a gay man 1930s Berl who assum the inty of his landlady, a German woman who had died unexpectedly, orr to avoid persecutn and imprisonment.

NEO-NAZI WHO TORTURED GAY PEOPLE VIRAL VIOS DI PRISON OF SUICI

Acrdg to the Uned Stat Holot Memorial Mm, gay men were “often subjected to physil and sexual abe by mp guards and fellow mat, ” and some were “beaten and publicly huiated. While our ernment isn’t nductg forced stratns of gay men and women like the Nazis did, given the verable flood of anti-LGBTQ+ (and particularly anti-trans) laws beg passed by state ernments across the Uned Stat, Palmer believ we should be payg very close attentn to the legislative mov before ’s too late. While may seem unimagable for somethg as horrifyg as the Holot to repeat self, Palmer said he and his -creators want to remd dienc of the current trends towards thorarianism around the world as they watch Werner navigate the terror of beg gay 1930s Berl.

THE NAZI DOCTOR WHO EXPERIMENTED ON GAY PEOPLE – AND BRA HELPED TO PE JTICE

Meanwhile, Jens-Christian Wagner, the director of the Buchenwald Memorial, said that the AfD’s actns had “crossed a le” and brand the party “disgtg, unnstutnal, homophobic and historilly revisnist” Wagner also said a ban on genr-clive language at Saxony’s universi would reprent a “vlatn of amic eedom” has already troduced a ban on genr-clive language s schools, a move the AfD claims to have forced through s own mpaigng.

FROM GAY NAZIS TO 'WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER': A CENTURY OF ARGUG ABOUT GAY PRI

Christiane Northup, a matriarch of women’s alternative health, who rose to fame on the strength of several “Oprah” appearanc and btsellg books, published by the New Age self-help platform Hay Hoe, whose founr, Louise Hay, was famo for tellg gay men dyg of AIDS that they jt didn’t love themselv enough. Here's how the two are lked“One n anize the qutn of female prostutn, which by parison wh this qutn [of male homosexualy] prciple is pletely harmls, a way that is acceptable for a civilized people.

The central argument is that the Nazi regime's emphasis on heterosexualy as an sential mascule tra was ntted by homosexual veterans, who attempted to exert agency by actively fg notns of “masculy, ” the nature of their homosexualy, as well as their stat the Volksgemeschaft (people's muny).

GAY HOLOT

The ways which homosexual men perceived homosexualy relatn to hegemonic mascule norms were diverse: whereas some tried to argue for the patibily of homosexualy and martial masculy, those who were arrted often distanced themselv om their homosexual inty. Der vorliegen Aufsatz hanlt von n Erfahngen und Perspektiven homosexueller Männer im natnalsozialistischen Dtschland, sbonre nen von homosexuellen Veteranen s Ersten Weltkrieg. Sie versuchten aktiv ihren Handlungsspielrm zu bewahren, m sie Vorstellungen über “Männlichke”, das Wen ihrer Homosexualät sowie ihren Stat nerhalb r Volksgemeschaft selbst fierten.

Wie homosexuelle Männer dabei Homosexualät Bezug f hegemoniale Männlichkesnormen wahrnahmen, war ganz unterschiedlich: eige machten sich für die Kompatibilät von Homosexualät und martialischer Männlichke stark, wohgegen diejenigen, die haftiert wurn, sich oft von ihrer Homosexualät distanzierten.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Die Verfolgung von Homosexuellen im Drten Reich (Parborn: Schöngh, 1990)Google Scholar; Whisnant, Clayton J., Queer Inti and Polics Germany: A History, 1880–1945 (New York: Harrgton Park Prs, 2016), 204-41CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Plant, Richard, The Pk Triangle: The Nazi War agast Homosexuals (New York: Henry Holt, 1986)Google Scholar. Gellately, Robert and Stoltzf, Nathan (Prceton, NJ: Prceton Universy Prs, 2001), 233-355Google Scholar; on the culture of the SA, see Hanck, Eleanor, Ernst Röhm: Hler's SA Chief of Staff (New York: Palgrave Maclan, 2008)Google Scholar; Wackerfs, Andrew, Stormtrooper Fai: Homosexualy and Communy the Early Nazi Movement (New York: Harrgton Park Prs, 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS

Herzog, Dagmar (New York: Berghahn, 2005), 95-130Google Scholar; Gil, Geofey J., “Legislatg Homophobia the Third Reich: The Radilizatn of Prosecutn agast Homosexualy by the Legal Profsn, ” German History 23, no. 5 The fil are also explored (though whout analysis of the arrte’ ary-service background) Pretzel, Andreas and Roßbach, Gabriele, eds., Wegen r zu erwartenn hohen Strafe: Homosexuellenverfolgung Berl 1933–1945 (Berl: Verlag Rosa Wkel, 2000)Google Scholar. 20 Wackerfs, Stormtrooper Fai, 51; for more on Hans Blüher and Adolf Brand's perspectiv about the mascule image of the homosexual, the warrr ial, and cricisms of “femizatn” and women's rights, see Crouthamel, Jason, An Intimate History of the Front: Masculy, Sexualy and German Soldiers the First World War (New York: Palgrave Maclan, 2014), 130-41Google Scholar.

Kls Thewele suggts, his classic study, that the misogyny, vlence, and homoeroticism found the memoirs and wrgs of Freikorps members revealed universal male psychologil tennci.

23 See also Wackerfs, Stormtrooper Fai, 178; Hanck, Eleanor, “‘Only the Real, the Te, the Mascule Held Its Value’: Ernst Röhm, Masculy and Male Homosexualy, ” Journal of the History of Sexualy 8, no. 37 Geofey Gil, “The Instutnalizatn of Homosexual Panic the Third Reich, ” Social Outsirs Nazi Germany, 238; see also im, “Männerbund m Homo-Panik: Die Angst r Nazis vor r Rolle r Erotik, ” Natnalsozialistischer Terror gegen Homosexuelle.