History

Gay victims of Nazism speak out in a new film, Paragraph 175. Their testimonies refute “neo-revisionist” histories of the holocaust that ignore or dismiss the Nazi war against homosexuals.

The German sex researcher Dr Magnus Hirschfeld, 1868-1935, was one of the world’s greatest gay rights pioneers.

Most of the world’s leading holocaust historians are guilty of historical revisionism: the suppression or downplaying of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals.

The gay community has made great gains, but true liberation is yet to come.

This year’s Pride/Mardi Gras celebrates the 30th anniversary of the London Gay Liberation Front. Peter Tatchell looks back at the movement that created the gay community and changed society forever.

Unlike most holocaust memorials, the awesome US Holocaust Museum in Washington DC refuses to ignore the Nazi persecution of queers.

Gay men who helped defeat Nazis were also often victimised because of their homosexuality.

The ideals and activism of the early 1970s gay liberation era.

In 1973 in East Berlin, Peter Tatchell staged the first ever lesbian and gay rights demonstration in a communist country.

Equal rights versus queer emancipation. Recalling the radical ideals of the Gay Liberation Front, more than mere legal equality is demanded-changing society is necessary.