Why the Myth of the “Gay Nazi” Is Back in Circulation
The Nazi Regime Set the Trans Rights Movement Back Decades
Transgender Experiences in Weimar and Nazi Germany
New Research Reveals How the Nazis Targeted Transgender People
Institut für Sexualwissenschaft
The Nazi ideal had been based on white, cishet (that is, cisgender and heterosexual) masculinity masquerading as genetic superiority. Any who strayed were considered as depraved, immoral, and worthy of total eradication.
Sexuality Pt. 3: Homosexuality – Sigmund Freud & Beyond
Male homosexuality was criminalized in Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Because women were capable of having children “the text does not mention women; in fact lesbianism was never criminalized in Germany. The male dominated German society viewed lesbianism as a casual outgrowth of female bonding that manifested itself during adolescence and usually subsided as women joined or were forced into patriarchal households. During the Nazi controlled years lesbianism was not seen as a threat to the perpetuation of the German race as lesbians could be forced to have children.” The obsession with procreation in Nazi Germany was partly the need to out breed opponents, and male homosexuals were targeted for their non-conformity. “The young Himmler’s diary mentions two influential books which are at the core of this hatred, The Priest and the Acolyte by John Francis Bloxam and The Role of Eroticism in Male Society by Hans Blüher. To Himmler the ideas presented…on homoerotic bonds between men and boys, and the focus of homoeroticism as the crucial element in men’s organizations…combined in his mind to produce an idea of homosexuality as pederasty, with young boys as the main victims. To the Nazis and Himmler the estimated two million homosexuals in Germany were a threat to the Nazi ideal of propelling the Aryan race to such an overwhelming degree that it could take over the world. Himmler viewed homosexuals as ‘propagation blanks’ that preyed on boys and subverted Himmler’s goal of a worldwide German master race…The Nazi regime can be seen as a ‘Biocracy’, subverting and twisting medical science to serve state policy.”
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 