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The Third Reich subjected some one hundred thousand individuals to a pernicious anti-homosexual campaign that included censorship, surveillance, medical experimentation, and death. Credible scholarship suggests that as many as fifteen thousand were interned in concentration camps, though the actual names and numbers of all those who suffered and died will never be known.
Today, prevailing historical narratives hold that the persecution of homosexuals under Hitler was "discovered" in the 1970s by a post-Stonewall gay and lesbian community, who were the first to use these tragic events—emblematically symbolized by the pink triangle—to advance the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights around the world. The Pink Scar tells a different story. This book shows that Americans had ample opportunity to learn about this persecution before and during the war and explores how activists in the United States made Hitler's anti-homosexual campaign a central, animating force in their arguments at almost every major turning point in the lesbian and gay struggle since 1934.
Victims of the Nazi regime were among the most important and the most contested symbols in the history of lesbian and gay rights rhetoric—perhaps even more contested than the pink triangle itself. This book shows us how, nearly one hundred years after Hitler came to power, remembering the people persecuted by the Nazi regime is once again essential for defending LGBTQ+ rights in a new age of growing fascism and anti-queer/trans oppression.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. | Virile and Valiant Anti-Fascists: Challenging the
Myth of the Homosexual Nazi, 1934-1935
2. | Vagrants and Outlaws: Remembering Nazi Laws
to Fight the American Gestapo, 1949-1965
3. | Habitual Skeptics: Remembering Incarceration
and Medical Experiments in Gay Nazi-Exploitation
Pulps, 1966-1969
4. | Spectral Siblings: Remembering Our Ghostly
Brothers and Sisters as Martyrs for Gay Power,
1970-1977
5. | Lambs to the Slaughter: Harvey Milk, Memories
of Shame, and the Myth of Homosexual Passivity,
1977-1979
Conclusion: Never Again, Never Forget,
1981-1987
Notes
Bibliography
Index
