Paragraph 175
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Gay History – April 4, 1938: Gestapo Announces That Gay Prisoners To Be Sent To Concentration Camps
Paragraph 175 was a provision of the German Criminal Code established in May 1871 that made homosexual acts between males…
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January 27 – Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Pink Triangle and Paragraph 175
Survival in camps took on many forms. Some homosexual inmates secured administrative and clerical jobs. For other prisoners, sexuality became…
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Gay History – October 16th: Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde and Germany’s Paragraph 175
October 16th. 1856: Oscar Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, Oscar Wilde became…
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Germany To Remove Convictions of 50,000 Gay Men Under Nazi-era Law Paragraph 175
After decades of lobbying, victims and activists hailed a triumph in the struggle to clear the names of gay men…
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Is This The First “Gay” Movie Ever Made? – Different From Others (1919) – Video
We all know there is a HUGE selection of gay films available to watch. Many are recent while some began to…
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Israel To Erect Monument In Rememberance Of LGBT’s Persecuted By The Nazis
Although an exact number will never be known, between 1933 and 1945, under the notorious Paragraph 175 of the Nazi…
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