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‘The Scourge Of Crooked Drumpf Attacks Against Our Trans Community’
(23 May 2023)
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Dear Reader:
Republi-cons and Christian Con-servatives are ‘Pro-Life’???
There will be a running theme today.
Republi-con and Christian Con-servative attacks against Trans, LGBT, Black Americans, Middle East Americans, women, children, immigrants – anyone who is not White CisHet American male.
For starters.
CBS News reported that 3% of Black Americans voted for Crooked Drumpf in the 2016 Election.
One Black person seems to be too many.
Every day, Spawn Robertson and his CBN ‘700 Club’ TV show runs feature stories presenting Black Americans joining the Racist Republi-con Party and segregationist Christian Con-servative ideology.
Crooked Drumpf used Coronavirus to commit an intentional act of mass murder, Social Murder, and Genocide against American Black citizens. Thom Hartmann discussed on his show today the way Crooked Drumpf observed during the early stages of the Coronavirus Pandemic that it was killing Black people more than White people. Hartmann cited the British medical journal report that Crooked Drumpf’s deliberate mishandling of Coronavirus during 2020 led directly at least to 500.000 American deaths, a large percentage Black Americans.
Tim Scott thinks that the Republi-con Party and Christian Con-servative accepts him. How naive, or Stoopid. Republi-cons and Christian Con-servatives use him to accumulate their political authority; Scott is riding those coattails. Let Scott attend a Republi-con kluxer rally, speak at a Republi-con White supremacists meeting. See how far they welcome him. Democrats might have been able to pass legislation making Lynching a federal crime (over Republi-con opposition) but Scott’s home state and most any Red Republi-con state still consider Lynching a legal method of White people controlling their ‘Uppity N!&&3¿’.
What Republi-cons said for Obama goes for Scott. Remember these quotes:
‘Attacking President Obama. I mean that clearly is the kind of Lynching here.’ Chris Wallace, R (Fox ‘News Sunday’, 6 Sep 09)
‘Attack the President. We’ll make Obama’s Waterloo. We want Obama to fail and our country to fail. Our Party comes first. We will break you, N****r!’ Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R (speech, 1 Jan 10)
The more time passes, little changes, little improves.
Tiva James:
I hope that this article comes to your Feed.
– Sharon
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Allow me to give credit to Avari Merchant, a few years late. I was reading through some old articles and came across this today.
Avari charts an accounting of Crooked Drumpf’s crimes.
Her list was from four years ago, effective as of when she wrote it.
We need to know that Crooked Drumpf multiplied his transgressions since then.
Sadly, Garland has failed to so much as whisper any hint of prosecuting Crooked Drumpf for his innumerable crimes. Nor has any state made any effective move, other than flapping some gums. Oh, big noogies! So one small, local prosecutor put out one piddling Civil case; Crooked Drumpf will never himself pay that $5 million fine and his legal team are proficient at filing briefs, motions, and appeals that will run out the clock. Giuliani had decades to prosecute Crooked Drumpf and did nothing.
Can you imagine Crooked Drumpf elected President – again??? He needs to be sitting in solitary right now. If – that’s a grand ‘IF’ – Crooked Drumpf is convicted and actually sent to Club Fed, there are no prohibitions regarding him running his campaign from the Cross Bar Hotel even to serving from the clink. Republi-cons, Christian Con-servatives, Drumpfians, Deplorables – they are all guaranteed votes for Crooked Drumpf. State Gerrymandering assures that there will be more than enough Electoral College votes for Crooked Drumpf to be re-elected. Remember, this didn’t start today, or with Crooked Drumpf. This is their Permanent Republi-con Majority scheme from decades ago. Spawn Robertson celebrated this yesterday, read what I wrote yesterday.
– Sharon
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(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2307522516163609&id=100007176498843)
Avari Merchant
22 May 2019
From a friend. Print this out and show it to any pro-Trump LGBT folks you know. If they still defend Trump, crumple the list and shove it up their ass…
You want a list of all the anti-trans anti-LGBT actions this administration has taken?
March 13, 2019: The Department of Defense laid out its plans for implementing its ban on transgender troops, giving an official implementation date of April 12.
January 23, 2019: The Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights granted an exemption to adoption and foster care agencies in South Carolina, allowing religiously-affiliated services to discriminate against current and aspiring LGBTQ caregivers.
November 23, 2018: The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) erased critical guidance that helped federal agency managers understand how to support transgender federal workers and respect their rights, replacing clear and specific guidance reflecting applicable law and regulations with vaguely worded guidance hostile to transgender workers. While this guidance change did not change the rights of transgender federal workers under applicable law, regulations, Executive Orders, and case law, it is likely to cause confusion and promote discrimination within the nation’s largest employer.
August 10, 2018: The Department of Labor released a new directive for Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) staff encouraging them to grant broad religious exemptions to federal contractors with religious-based objections to complying with nondiscrimination laws. It also deleted material from an OFCCP FAQ on LGBT nondiscrimination protections that previously clarified the limited scope of allowable religious exemptions.
June 11, 2018: Attorney General Jeff Sessions ruled that the federal government would no longer recognized gang violence or domestic violence as grounds for asylum, adopting a legal interpretation that could lead to rejecting most LGBT asylum-seekers.
May 11, 2018: The Bureau of Prisons in the Department of Justice adopted an illegal policy of almost entirely housing transgender people in federal prison facilities that match their sex assigned at birth, rolling back existing protections.
March 23, 2018: The Trump Administration announced an implementation plan for its discriminatory ban on transgender military service members.
February 18, 2018: The Department of Education announced it will summarily dismiss complaints from transgender students involving exclusion from school facilities and other claims based solely on gender identity discrimination.
January 26, 2018: The Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that encourages medical providers to use religious grounds to deny treatment to transgender people, people who need reproductive care, and others.
January 18, 2018: The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights opened a “Conscience and Religious Freedom Division” that will promote discrimination by health care providers who can cite religious or moral reasons for denying care.
December 14, 2017: Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were instructed not to use the words “transgender,” “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “fetus,” “evidence-based,” and “science-based” in official documents.
October 6, 2017: The Justice Department released a sweeping “license to discriminate” allowing federal agencies, government contractors, government grantees, and even private businesses to engage in illegal discrimination, as long as they can cite religious reasons for doing so.
October 5, 2017: The Justice Department released a memo instructing Department of Justice attorneys to take the legal position that federal law does not protect transgender workers from discrimination.
September 7, 2017: The Justice Department filed a legal brief on behalf of the United States in the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing for a constitutional right for businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and, implicitly, gender identity.
August 25, 2017: President Trump released a memo directing Defense Department to move forward with developing a plan to discharge transgender military service members and to maintain a ban on recruitment.
July 26, 2017: President Trump announced, via Twitter, that “the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.”
July 26, 2017: The Justice Department filed a legal brief on behalf of the United States in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, arguing that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or, implicitly, gender identity.
June 14, 2017: The Department of Education withdrew its finding that an Ohio school district discriminated against a transgender girl. The Department gave no explanation for withdrawing the finding, which a federal judge upheld.
May 2, 2017: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a plan to roll back regulations interpreting the Affordable Care Act’s nondiscrimination provisions to protect transgender people.
April 14, 2017: The Justice Department abandoned its historic lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s anti-transgender law. It did so after North Carolina replaced HB2 with a different anti-transgender law known as “HB 2.0.”
April 4, 2017: The Departments of Justice and Labor cancelled quarterly conference calls with LGBT organizations; on these calls, which had happened for years, government attorneys shared information on employment laws and cases.
March 31, 2017: The Justice Department announced it would review (and likely seek to scale back) numerous civil rights settlement agreements with police departments. These settlements were put in places where police departments were determined to be engaging in discriminatory and abusive policing, including racial and other profiling. Many of these agreements include critical protections for LGBT people.
March 2017: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) removed links to four key resource documents from its website, which informed emergency shelters on best practices for serving transgender people facing homelessness and complying with HUD regulations.
March 28, 2017: The Census Bureau retracted a proposal to collect demographic information on LGBT people in the 2020 Census.
March 24, 2017: The Justice Department cancelled a long-planned National Institute of Corrections broadcast on “Transgender Persons in Custody: The Legal Landscape.”
March 13, 2017: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that its national survey of older adults, and the services they need, would no longer collect information on LGBT participants. HHS initially falsely claimed in its Federal Register announcement that it was making “no changes” to the survey.
March 13, 2017: The State Department announced the official U.S. delegation to the UN’s 61st annual Commission on the Status of Women conference would include two outspoken anti-LGBT organizations, including a representative of the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM): an organization designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
March 10, 2017: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced it would withdraw two important agency-proposed policies designed to protect LGBT people experiencing homelessness. One proposed policy would have required HUD-funded emergency shelters to put up a poster or “notice” to residents of their right to be free from anti-LGBT discrimination under HUD regulations.
The other announced a survey to evaluate the impact of the LGBTQ Youth Homelessness Prevention Initiative, implemented by HUD and other agencies over the last three years. This multi-year project should be evaluated, and with this withdrawal, we may never learn what worked best in the project to help homeless LGBTQ youth.
March 8, 2017: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) removed demographic questions about LGBT people that Centers for Independent Living must fill out each year in their Annual Program Performance Report. This report helps HHS evaluate programs that serve people with disabilities.
March 2, 2017: The Department of Justice abandoned its request for a preliminary injunction against North Carolina’s anti-transgender House Bill 2, which prevented North Carolina from enforcing HB 2. This was an early sign that the Administration was giving up defending trans people (later, on April 14, it withdrew the lawsuit completely).
March 1, 2017: The Department of Justice took the highly unusual step of declining to appeal a nationwide preliminary court order temporarily halting enforcement of the Affordable Care Act’s nondiscrimination protections for transgender people. The injunction prevents HHS from taking any action to enforce transgender people’s rights from health care discrimination.
February 22, 2017: The Departments of Justice and Education withdrew landmark 2016 guidance explaining how schools must protect transgender students under the federal Title IX law.
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(https://m.facebook.com/events/1251747384989179?view=permalink&id=1262478637249387)
Ana Andrea Molina
28 May 2019
A Latina trans woman died in the custody of ICE and the Government wanted to burn her body so that she would not be autopsied, now the autopsy reveals that she died of dehydration and body bumps as well as marks of ties on her feet and hands.
The voices of the community Need to be heard and people are dying in ICE custody.
Come and support us to demand justice for the death of Roxana Hernández, a trans immigrant Honduran immigrant, she lived under the status of hiv and received no care.
#TodosSomosRoxana
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The Burka, Hijab, and other attire are products of Patriarchal and Misogynist nations, religions, and cultures; they are NOT a fashion statement. Men impose these dress codes under force of law against girls and women. The penalty for the slightest infraction is immediate death sentence.
Republi-cons and Christian Con-servatives are passing state and local laws governing similar dress laws against girls and women. Sharia is a Christian Con-servative religious ally.
– Sharon
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SAVEOURSISTERS
Trans In-Formation
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Niambi E Stanley
19 May 2019
NOWWWWW! Lets see how much THIS gets shared, and whos just Full of shit….
3 lives GONE WAY TOO SOON. What in the hell are we gonna do about it?
I guess youll wait until she’s close to you!
#SAVEOURSISTERS
Rest In Peace ladies!!! ❤ ❤ ❤
Trans In-Formation
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Rights Groups Slam “Sham Trial” for Iranian Journalists Who Helped Expose Death of Mahsa Amini
JUN 02, 2023
Image Credit: Jinha Women’s News Agency
In Iran, the two women journalists whose reporting on Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody last September helped set off a nationwide uprising were tried this week in what press freedom groups blasted as a “sham trial.” Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi had been prevented from seeing their lawyers ahead of the trial, and the lawyers were reportedly not permitted to present a defense in court during the closed-door proceedings. Last month, the reporters were awarded the prestigious 2023 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, alongside a third imprisoned Iranian journalist and activist, Narges Mohammadi.
TOPICS:
Iran
Journalism
Freedom of the Press
Protests
Women’s Rights
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Funeral In Dallas For Muhlaysia Booker:
(https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2019/05/28/that-was-my-sister-transgender-murder-victim-laid-to-rest/)
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/transgenderhealth/permalink/2521082257936185/?sfnsn=cl)
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(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Arondeus)
Willem Arondéus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondéus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. Yad Vashem recognized Arondéus as Righteous Among the Nations.
Arondéus was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexuality before his execution. His final words were: “Tell the people that homosexuals are not by definition weak.”
Early life
Willem Johan Cornelis Arondéus was born in Naarden, as the youngest son of an Amsterdam fuel trader.[1][2] His parents were Hendrik Cornelis Arondéus and Catharina Wilhelmina de Vries. He started working as an illustrator, designer of posters and tapestries and a painter. In 1923 he was commissioned to paint a large mural for Rotterdam City Hall.[1] During that same period, he illustrated poems by J. H. Leopold, Pieter Cornelis Boutens and Martinus Nijhoff. He admired the older Dutch designer Richard Roland Holst, as can be seen in his work. He did not attain much fame and lived in impoverished circumstances.
Around 1935, he gave up visual arts and became an author. The poems and stories he had written in the 1920s went unpublished, but in the year 1938 he published two novels, Het Uilenhuis (‘The Owls House’) and In de bloeiende Ramenas (‘In the Blossoming Winter Radish’), both illustrated with designs by Arondéus himself. The year 1939 saw the publication of his best work, Matthijs Maris: de tragiek van den droom (‘The Tragedy of the Dream’), a biography of the painter Matthijs Maris, who was a brother of the Dutch artists Jacob and Willem Maris. Two years later, Figuren en problemen der monumentale schilderkunst in Nederland (‘Figures and Problems of Monumental Painting in the Netherlands’) was published, again with designs by the author. At that date, however, Arondéus was already involved with the Dutch resistance movement.
Resistance movement
In 1942, Arondéus started an underground periodical called the Brandarisbrief. In 1943, the Brandarisbrief merged with another publication called De Vrije Kunstenaar. Through the merger, Arondéus met Gerrit van der Veen, the editor of De Vrije Kunstenaar.[2] In the resistance, van der Veen specialized in forging identity cards.[2] As a result, Arondéus also became involved in creating forged documents,[1][2] along with lesbian resistant Frieda Belinfante.[3] A major detriment to the success of these forgeries was the Municipal Office for Population Registration as its existence made the forgeries less useful, since their legitimacy could be checked against the registration lists and determined to be fakes. Arondéus and van der Veen, along with a number of associates, developed a plan to destroy the registration office.[2]
Their attack, which took place on 27 March 1943,[1][2] was partially successful, and they managed to destroy 800,000 identity cards (15% of the records[4]), and retrieve 600 blank cards and 50,000 guilders. The building was blown up and no one was caught on the night of the attack. However, due to an unknown betrayer, Arondéus was arrested on 1 April 1943.[1] Arondéus refused to give up the rest of his team but his notebook was found, and as a result, a majority of the group were also arrested.[2] Belifante was the sole person from the group to have survived, forcing her to take on a man’s identity and go undercover.[5]
On 18 June 1943, Arondéus was tried and sentenced to death, along with 13 other men who participated. Two of the group received clemency, but the others were executed on 1 July 1943.[1][2] Arondéus pleaded guilty and took the full blame, which may be why two young doctors were spared from execution and given custodial sentences instead. Before his execution, Arondéus made a point of ensuring the public would be aware that he and two other men in the group, Bakker and Brouwer, were gay, asking either a friend or his lawyer (accounts vary) to: “Tell the people that homosexuals can be brave!”[6]
Legacy
In 1945, after the liberation of the Netherlands, Arondéus’s family was awarded a posthumous medal by the Dutch government in his honour.[1] In 1984, he was awarded the Resistance Memorial Cross.[2] On 19 June 1986, Yad Vashem recognized Arondéus as Righteous Among the Nations.[2]
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(https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/14/ken-paxton-transgender-texas-data/)
Texas attorney general’s office sought state data on transgender Texans
The behind-the-scenes effort by Ken Paxton’s office to obtain data on how many Texans had changed their gender on their licenses came as he and other Republican leaders in the state have been publicly marshaling resources against transgender Texans.
MOLLY HENNESSY-FISKE,
THE WASHINGTON POST
DEC. 14, 2022
9 AM CENTRAL
HOUSTON — Employees at the Texas Department of Public Safety in June received a sweeping request from Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office: to compile a list of individuals who had changed their gender on their Texas driver’s licenses and other department records during the past two years.
“Need total number of changes from male to female and female to male for the last 24 months, broken down by month,” the chief of the DPS driver license division emailed colleagues in the department on June 30, according to a copy of a message obtained by The Washington Post through a public records request. “We won’t need DL/ID numbers at first but may need to have them later if we are required to manually look up documents.”
After more than 16,000 such instances were identified, DPS officials determined that a manual search would be needed to determine the reason for the changes, DPS spokesperson Travis Considine told The Post in response to questions.
“A verbal request was received,” he wrote in an email. “Ultimately, our team advised the AG’s office the data requested neither exists nor could be accurately produced. Thus, no data of any kind was provided.”
Asked who in Paxton’s office had requested the records, he replied: “I cannot say.”
The behind-the-scenes effort by Paxton’s office to obtain data on how many Texans had changed their gender on their licenses came as the attorney general, Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican leaders in the state have been publicly marshaling resources against transgender Texans.
Abbott signed a bill last year banning transgender youths from participating in school sports that align with their gender identity at K-12 public schools, and earlier this year he ordered the state to investigate the provision of gender-affirming care as potential child abuse. State lawmakers have already proposed more than a dozen anti-LGBTQ measures ahead of the next legislative session in January, including criminalizing gender-affirming care and banning minors at drag shows.
Public records obtained by The Post do not indicate why the attorney general’s office sought the driver’s license information. But advocates for transgender Texans say Paxton could use the data to further restrict their right to transition, calling it a chilling effort to secretly harness personal information to persecute already vulnerable people.
“This is another brick building toward targeting these individuals,” said Ian Pittman, an Austin attorney who represents Texas parents of transgender children investigated by the state. “They’ve already targeted children and parents. The next step would be targeting adults. And what better way than seeing what adults had had their sex changed on their driver’s licenses?”
Alexis Salkeld Garcia, 34, of Austin, a trans woman who changed the gender listed on her driver’s license from male to female a year and a half ago, said the attorney general’s office inquiry made her feel “terrified.”
“It’s very specifically targeted, and the one person I don’t want knowing about my gender status is Ken Paxton,” said Salkeld Garcia, a software engineer who worries state officials might try to switch the gender listed on her driver’s license back to male.
“I don’t want a cop pulling me over and knowing I’m trans. That is why I changed my gender marker extremely quickly” after transitioning, she said.
Paxton’s office did not respond to requests for comment.
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Attorney General Bailey Launches Tip Line for Reports of Questionable Gender Transition Interventions
Mar 23, 2023, 11:26 AM
AG Bailey
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – In an effort to protect children, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office has launched an online form where those who have experienced harm from gender transition interventions or witnessed troubling practices at transition clinics in Missouri can submit their concerns. This tip line stems from an investigation that Attorney General Bailey launched into a St. Louis pediatric transgender center that has been accused by a whistleblower of using experimental drugs on children, distributing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones without individualized assessment, and even giving children these life-altering drugs without parental consent.
“As Attorney General, I want Missouri to be the safest state in the nation for children. After receiving an alarming affidavit from a credible witness on child abuses allegedly occurring within a pediatric transgender clinic in St. Louis, I knew we had to take action and look into these allegations,” said Attorney General Bailey. “To that end, I have set up a tip line that parents can use to tell their stories as my office continues to investigate whether the Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital has broken the law. No stone will be left unturned during the course of this investigation.”
Victims or their parents are encouraged to reach out to the Attorney General’s Office if they believe that they or someone they know have been subject to illegal or abusive behavior surrounding gender transition intervention procedures.
The form to submit concerns can be found here:
https://ago.mo.gov/file-a-complaint/transgender-center-concerns
Information on Attorney General Bailey’s ongoing investigation into the St. Louis transgender pediatric clinic can be found here:
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(https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/6-may-1933-looting-of-the-institute-of-sexology/)
6 MAY 1933:
LOOTING OF THE INSTITUTE OF SEXOLOGY
On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was broken into and occupied by Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later the entire contents of the library were removed and burned.
The institute was initially occupied by The German Student Union, who were a collective of Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later, on 10 May, the entire contents of the library were removed to Berlin’s Bebelplatz Square. That night, along with 20,000 other books across Germany, they were publicly burned in a symbolic attack by Nazi officials on their enemies.
Book burning after looting of the Institute of Sexology
Founded in 1919, the institute had been set up by Magnus Hirschfeld, a world-renowned expert in the emerging discipline of sexology. During its existence, thousands of patients were seen and treated, often for free. The Institute also achieved a global reputation for its pioneering work on transsexual understanding and calls for equality for homosexuals, transgender people and women. Hirschfield himself was a passionate advocate for homosexual rights and had long appealed for the repeal of Paragraph 175, the law that criminalised homosexuality in Germany.
Jewish, gay and outspokenly liberal, Hirschfeld was an obvious target for the Nazis, and the seizure and destruction of the institute on 6 May took place only three months after Hitler was made Chancellor of Germany. During the attack and subsequent book burning, Hirschfeld was working in Paris. He saw the burning of his own library in a news report at the cinema. Among the texts thrown onto the bonfire at the Bebelplatz was Heinrich Heine’s Almansor, in which the author noted:
‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.
After the attack on the institute the Nazis continued their persecution of gay men by expanding and enforcing legislation that criminalised homosexuality. In 1935, just weeks after the death of Hirschfeld in Paris, Paragraph 175 was redrafted to prohibit all forms of male homosexual contact. In total, around 50,000 gay men were detained under these draconian laws. Once confined in jail, they were routinely exposed to inhumane treatment for their sexuality. Around 10,000 to 15,000 were also deported to concentrations camps, where many were forced to wear a pink triangle, and subjected to castration and medical experimentation. Over half of these prisoners would die from the extreme conditions they were subjected to in the camps. Even after the end of the war, Paragraph 175 was not repealed and many gay men remained in prison for years to come.
Rudolf Brazda was the last known concentration camp survivor deported specifically for homosexuality. He endured 32 months of forced labour.
NAZI PERSECUTION
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(https://theconversation.com/how-the-nazis-destroyed-the-first-gay-rights-movement-80354)
How the Nazis destroyed the first gay rights movement
While these developments didn’t mean the end of centuries of intolerance, the 1920s and early ‘30s certainly looked like the beginning of the end. On the other hand, the greater “out-ness” of gay and trans people provoked their opponents.
A French reporter, bemoaning the sight of uncloseted LGBTQ people in public, complained, “the contagion … is corrupting every milieu.” The Berlin police grumbled that magazines aimed at gay men – which they called “obscene press materials” – were proliferating. In Vienna, lectures of the “Scientific Humanitarian Committee” might be packed with supporters, but one was attacked by young men hurling stink bombs. A Parisian town councilor in 1933 called it “a moral crisis” that gay people, known as “inverts” at that time, could be seen in public.
“Far be it from me to want to turn to fascism,” the councilor said, “but all the same, we have to agree that in some things those regimes have sometimes done good… One day Hitler and Mussolini woke up and said, ‘Honestly, the scandal has gone on long enough’ … And … the inverts … were chased out of Germany and Italy the very next day.”
The ascent of Fascism
It’s this willingness to make a blood sacrifice of minorities in exchange for “normalcy” or prosperity that has observers drawing uncomfortable comparisons between then and now.
In the 1930s, the Depression spread economic anxiety, while political fights in European parliaments tended to spill outside into actual street fights between Left and Right. Fascist parties offered Europeans a choice of stability at the price of democracy. Tolerance of minorities was destabilizing, they said. Expanding liberties gave “undesirable” people the liberty to undermine security and threaten traditional “moral” culture. Gay and trans people were an obvious target.
What happened next shows the whiplash speed with which the progress of a generation can be thrown into reverse.
The nightmare
One day in May 1933, pristine white-shirted students marched in front of Berlin’s Institute for Sexual Research – that safe haven for LGBTQ people – calling it “Un-German.” Later, a mob hauled out its library to be burned. Later still, its acting head was arrested.
When Nazi leader Adolph Hitler needed to justify arresting and murdering former political allies in 1934, he said they were gay. This fanned anti-gay zealotry by the Gestapo, which opened a special anti-gay branch. During the following year alone, the Gestapo arrested more than 8,500 gay men, quite possibly using a list of names and addresses seized at the Institute for Sexual Research. Not only was Paragraph 175 not erased, as a parliamentary committee had recommended just a few years before, it was amended to be more expansive and punitive.
As the Gestapo spread throughout Europe, it expanded the hunt. In Vienna, it hauled in every gay man on police lists and questioned them, trying to get them to name others. The fortunate ones went to jail. The less fortunate went to Buchenwald and Dachau. In conquered France, Alsace police worked with the Gestapo to arrest at least 200 men and send them to concentration camps. Italy, with a fascist regime obsessed with virility, sent at least 300 gay men to brutal camps during the war period, declaring them “dangerous for the integrity of the race.”
The total number of Europeans arrested for being LGBTQ under fascism is impossible to know because of the lack of reliable records. But a conservative estimate is that there were many tens of thousands to one hundred thousand arrests during the war period alone.
Under these nightmare conditions, far more LGBTQ people in Europe painstakingly hid their genuine sexuality to avoid suspicion, marrying members of the opposite sex, for example. Still, if they had been prominent members of the gay and trans community before the fascists came to power, as Berlin lesbian club owner Lotte Hahm was, it was too late to hide. She was sent to a concentration camp.
In those camps, gay men were marked with a pink triangle. In these places of horror, men with pink triangles were singled out for particular abuse. They were mechanically raped, castrated, favored for medical experiments and murdered for guards’ sadistic pleasure even when they were not sentenced for “liquidation.” One gay man attributed his survival to swapping his pink triangle for a red one – indicating he was merely a Communist. They were ostracized and tormented by their fellow inmates, too.
The looming danger of a backslide
This isn’t 1930s Europe. And making superficial comparisons between then and now can only yield superficial conclusions.
But with new forms of authoritarianism entrenched and seeking to expand in Europe and beyond, it’s worth thinking about the fate of Europe’s LGBTQ community in the 1930s and ‘40s – a timely note from history as Germany approves same-sex marriage and on this first anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges.
In 1929, Germany came close to erasing its anti-gay law, only to see it strengthened soon thereafter. Only after a gap of 88 years are convictions under that law being annulled.
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More Additional Resources:
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(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933)
Hitler’s Enabling Act
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(https://youtu.be/h8foOUPctfA)
Tony Guida
‘Lavender Scare ‘
Interview: 14 Jun 2019
With guest Josh Howard.
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When LGBT was illegal.
A Stonewall Inn veteran recalls the riots that sparked an LGBTQ revolution
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4.
(https://fb.watch/barQDSp7-7/)
(https://fb.watch/barIjyiiJe/)
Liberal Redneck – Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill
Trae Crowder
10 Feb 2022
Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.
(https://fb.watch/barLmWBYUW/)
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(https://fb.watch/b9kHgtNZ6H/)
Daily Show
11 Feb 2012
Freedom Convoy Compares Vax Mandates to Holocaust
(https://fb.watch/b9kRR6xT07/)
(https://fb.watch/b9kSQSY5OD/)
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(https://youtu.be/BVUs4dS30c0)
PBS Frontline
Trump’s American Carnage #3910
Arizona PBS HD
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DESCRIPTION
From his first days as president to his last, how Trump stoked division, violence, and insurrection. Trump’s siege on his enemies, the media, and even the leaders of his own party, who for years ignored the warning signs of what was to come.
Broadcast In: ENGLISH
Duration: 0:56:46
HD
ADDITIONAL AIRINGS
3:00am, 02/02/2022 | Arizona PBS HD
SET A REMINDER
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‘Drumpf’s Presidency ended in a violent assault on American Democracy. Drumpf stood at the Capitol on his Inauguration, lighting the fires that would become the Insurrection. Elected leaders looked on – unable to stop Drumpf or unwilling to see the coming violence and the Insurrection. Carnage that Drumpf vowed to end was just beginning. ‘ ‘Drumpf stirred chaos and violence. Violence worked.
– Narration
‘WE are led by Stupid People! ‘
– Drumpf (his speech)
‘American people were angry. They saw Drumpf fighting for them. ‘
– Corey Lewendowski, R-Drumpf
‘Drumpf’s a Race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. Tell Drumpf to go to Hell. ‘
– Senator Lindsey Graham
‘We have a Con artist in Drumpf in the Republi-con Party. He’s made a career telling lies. ‘
– Senator Marco Rubio
‘Drumpf is a pathological liar. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth. ‘
– Senator Rafael Cruz
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John Oliver discusses Trans Rights, Trans children participation in school sports, ROGD, Republi-cons and Christian Con-servatives opposed to the existence of Trans people and accusing Trans children as ‘sexual predators’, Gender Affirming Care, and other issues.
(https://youtu.be/Ns8NvPPHX5Y)
Last Week Tonight
16 Oct 2202
Transgender Rights
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