Persecution Against Homosexuals

Throughout the latter 1930s and early 1940s, many individuals experienced persecution. As Goldhagen mentioned in his novel, “Social death is a formal status...It is at once a culturally shared concept of the socially dead people and a set of practices towards them” (Goldhagen, 168). In Germany specifically, individuals part of a specific race were deemed to no longer be a human being in the eyes of the “superior race”. The social death of individuals such as Jewish people was obtained through the use of blame for problems faced and then the dehumanization of these individuals. Once the status of social death is reached, it is much easier for people to treat others in a degrading and violent manner. Those facing persecution, such as the Jewish, during World War II, faced immense atrocities. For individuals who were not killed themselves, the vast majority saw their friends and family killed, were stripped away from their homes and identity, were faced with torture, meager living conditions, and immense amounts of labor. On the opposite side, many individuals who took part in performing these atrocities against humanity were cognizant on some level to what they were doing, but were also obstructed

Hate Crimes: crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or religion(Federal officials, 2011). Hate crimes have been around for centuries. A hate crime is considered any malicious crime that is derived from hatred towards a certain group of people. African Americans are still victim to hate crimes, even after the Civil Rights movement. James Byrd Jr. suffered a prime example of a gruesome hate crime in 1998, because of his African American descent. Three white men, allegedly, chained Byrd to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him down a gravel road, leaving his body parts severed and bloody (Marty,1998). Recently, a new group of people has been targeted by the hateful view

The dehumanization and organization of non-heteronormative (gay) men took place long before the Holocaust began, starting with the legislative passage of Paragraph 175 in Germany. This legislation resulted in highly detailed police records of men suspected of homosexual activities readily accessible. Inevitably these records made it easier than ever for gay men to be arrested and detained for their identities, and for their

After World War II the U.S. government composed a list of those thought to be high security risks, Homosexuals were placed on this list, reason being that the U.S State Department thought they lack emotional stability contrary to heterosexual persons. Homosexuals were denied federal job applications, about 5,000 of them were discharged from the military and 400 were fired from government jobs because people may have suspected them as being homosexual.The FBI kept track of the lives of homosexuals. The mail they received, what businesses they

Media had a significant impact on the gender. Due to how people judging LGBTTQ people, it showed people always judge by reading the cover of book only instead of putting themselves into their shoes. People online usually judge others by hearing what other people said, but not what they really see and feel. A reason for this was people nowadays have already used to communicate with each others through media and forgot the real world outside. The outcome suggests that people should stand out their comfort zone and try to respect different gender of people. Since LGBTTQ are human also, they deserve what regular person does and people should always put themselves into other people’s

They were saw as impure to the Germans that had wanted a pure race and thought that they got in the way of the German nation (1). Before the war, Nazis kept lists of questionable homosexuals on lists called "Pink Lists." Nearly 1.2 million known homosexuals were in Germany in 1928 (Persecution 1). At the beginning of the war, brown-shirted troopers raided gay associations and congregations (Mosaic 1). Instead of being organized like the Jews, homosexuals were simply rounded uo and taken to the concentration camps. While in the concentration camps, homosexuals were treated especially harsh (Persecution 1). They were forced to wear pink triangles on their clothing to be easily recognized and for easy humiliation (Brittanica 1). Some homosexuals were raped and others endured brutal medical experiments. To find an easy fix to homosexuality, doctors would try to make them release more male testosterone or put them through castration (Persecution 1). Because Hitler hated homosexuals so much, he even sent suspected gay SS men to camps in their uniforms. Nearly 15,000 homosexuals were killed during World War II (Holocaust 1). Although lesbian bars were shut down, there was no precise killing of them (Brittanica

Over the past 150 years, there have been many groups who have sought the North American dream of "liberty and justice for all." Examples are:

The homosexuals were a major group targeted in the Holocaust, and between 5,000 and 15,000 members were targeted ("Five Million Forgotten - Holocaust 's Non-Jewish Victims"). The main reason the homosexuals were targeted was because “the Nazis believed that male homosexuals were weak, effeminate men who could not fight for the German nation. They saw homosexuals as unlikely to produce children and increase the German birthrate” ("Persecution of Homosexuals in the Third Reich"). According to the quote, the homosexuals wouldn 't produce offspring thus making them unqualified for being apart of the Germans. Like all

Currently, in the United States there are 9 million people who are openly a part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community; that is roughly equivalent to the entire population of New Jersey. The LGBT community stands for and places their beliefs in equality, individuality, and pride. Despite their efforts, they are still faced with degrading discrimination and cruel hatred. Today, fourteen percent of all hate crimes are directed towards to LGBT community. (fbi.gov) The number of hate crimes towards the community is quickly increasing and evolving into a worldwide problem. One of the most recent and impactful hate crimes was in 2016 when a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was attacked by a gunman. That night, nearly fifty

From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, German authorities persecuted homosexuals and others whose behavior did not match prescribed social norms. German police officials targeted thousands of political opponents To the concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the

A reoccurring theme that has been evident throughout many systems of oppression is the necessity to define the group being oppressed as criminals. In the book Queer (In)Justice it is impossible to mistake the purposeful intent of church authorities, prosecutors, and other influential citizens who had an agenda. They were threatened by the progress being made by the gay community. Sodomy laws were falling and they began to worry about queers recruiting their youth to a “perverted” lifestyle. Most often the only crime that these LGBT people committed was being homosexual. This discrimination would be a little too evident so a feeble attempt was made to cover up hatred by producing these undeserved characteristics that queer people supposedly

Each and every day, thousands of members among the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual) community are affected by hate crimes, bullying and even homicide. In fact, in just 2015 alone, the number of crimes and homicides reported against these members are staggering. According to The National Coalition of Anti-violence Programs, there were fifteen reported homicides. (Jindasurat & Waters, 2015) That is only the reported number of victims who were confirmed as part of this community. Can you imagine how many are actually affected each year? These people are being targeted because of who they are and how they choose to live their life. They are being targeted because they have stood up for who they are. I couldn’t imagine being targeted

There are a lot of things that are wrong in our world today. From crime running wild on the streets to there being homelessness wherever we turn. There are things that we can fix, but there are others that just cannot be. We are humans after all; we all have our flaws, we all have our secrets, we have our weaknesses. There are just some things that can never be fixed. Hatred and unrationalizable actions being a few of these things. Every once in a while there is a major crime that sweeps the nation. The reasons for this can vary from mass shootings, police shootouts, the pure shock or the crime or many other reasons. One of these crimes that swept the nation was the horrible act committed against Matthew Shepard.

Persecutions of homosexuals, such as stoning whipping, genital mutilation and even the death penalty, have been around for centuries. Homosexuals were sentenced to die in concentration camps during WW II, suffering a fate almost identical to the Jews during the Holocaust. It was only in 1977 that the term homosexual was removed from the American Psychiatric Association, before that they were treated with aversion therapy as well as electroshock therapy, and on the rare occasion, even lobotomies.

During the height of the Second World War, Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals and other minorities, so called “racial enemies” of the Reich, were systematically targeted and marked for destruction by Nazi Policy. Homosexuals in particular were targeted beginning as early as 1933, and one of the survivors of that policy is Teofil “Stefan” Kosinski, a devout Polish Catholic arrested in 1942 for homosexuality after his letters to his lover on the Eastern Front were discovered by the Gestapo. Of the close to 60,000 interviews in the USC Shoah Foundations’ database, his is one of six homosexual survivors, and the only one in the English language. Kosinski spent several years in various jails, and though he was never sent to a concentration camp, as Nazi policy particularly honed in on him for his sexuality as a moral ill that threatened society. His being targeted for his sexuality presents a special window into the small pool of gay men persecuted under the Nazi regime during the Second World War, and of life in prison camps.