Paragraph 175
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Gay History Month – October 16: Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde and Nazi Germany’s Paragraph 175
October 16, 1856: Oscar Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880's, Oscar Wilde became…
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Gay History – April 4, 1938: Gestapo Announces That Homosexual Prisoners Are 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: Nazi Germany, The Pink Triangle and Paragraph 175
January 27 - Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Pink Triangle and Paragraph 175. Survival in camps took on many forms. Some…
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Gay History – 1919: The First Gay Movie Was Made 100 Years Ago – “Different From The Others” [Full Movie]
Made in 1919 Different From The Others was a 90 minute film centered around a famous violinist and his male student.…
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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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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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