Queer Conspiracies? Lesbians and Gay Men in Nazi Germany

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dc.contributor.authorHuneke, Samuel Clowesen
dc.contributor.authorWright de Hernandez, Anthonyen
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-10T19:20:48Zen
dc.date.available2020-04-10T19:20:48Zen
dc.date.issued2020-04-02en
dc.description.abstract[Note: This session occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic shortly after the majority of university instruction in the United States had moved online. During the session, individuals joined the online meeting to intentionally cause disruption. This phenomenon, called "Zoombombing" was occurring regularly during online educational sessions at this time. The event hosts addressed the disruption and the session continued. As a result of the disruption, this recording contains language some may find offensive.] In the twelve years the Nazis were in power, the German government convicted around fifty thousand men under the country’s sodomy law, §175 of the penal code. Around ten thousand were sent to concentration camps, where approximately six thousand perished, some subjected to gruesome medical experiments. Today, memory of gay persecution under the Nazis lives on in the form of the pink triangle, a ubiquitous symbol of gay liberation that was originally the designation of homosexual concentration camp inmates. But why did the National Socialist go out of their way to persecute gay men and why did lesbians largely remain untouched by the terror? While the Nazis had run on a moralizing platform that promised to stamp out prostitution and homosexuality, the widespread persecution of homosexuals was motivated not by the eugenic concerns of the Nazis’ racial state, but rather by fears that gay men were naturally drawn into conspiratorial cliques and thus posed a political threat to the regime. For the same reason, the National Socialists were less apprehensive about the threat of female homosexuality. The fascist government, after all, had succeeded in driving women out of politics and the workplace and back into the home, where they posed less of a threat to society or the state. This talk traces the changing contours of the Nazis’ divergent treatment of gay men and lesbians, showing when and how their anti-homosexual views arose, how they waxed and waned, and how they ultimately impacted the formation of modern gay and lesbian identity, both in Germany and abroad.en
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity Libraries, Virginia Techen
dc.format.extentDimensions: 853 x 480en
dc.format.extentDuration: 01:00:34en
dc.format.extentSize: 132 MBen
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dc.identifierQueerConspiracies_2020_04_02.mp4en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/97587en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Tech. University Librariesen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderVirginia Techen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectWorld War IIen
dc.subjectWeimar Republicen
dc.subjectGermanyen
dc.subjectNazisen
dc.subjectLGBTen
dc.subjectpoliticsen
dc.subjecthomophobiaen
dc.subjectmisogynyen
dc.subjecthuman rightsen
dc.titleQueer Conspiracies? Lesbians and Gay Men in Nazi Germanyen
dc.typePresentationen
dc.typeVideoen
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