Queer Racism and the End of Gay History

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California State University, Northridge
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CTVA 311 | History of Global Cinema
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2023
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Wednesday, 3 March 2021 Queer Racism and the End of Gay History - Laurie Marhoefer • First openly gay political - antiracist outed Ernst Rohm in 1932, publishing letters he had written about his own sexuality. in the letters, he described his desire for men, writing “I consider myself to be same-sex orientated [gleichgeschlechtlich • Far right queerness: not synonymous wit with mainstream racism , such as the type the Nazis promote. • Queer facism explored in. “National Socialism and Inversion”, which was written by a stormtrooper • Anonymous did not exactly disagree with the mainstream Nazi Party’s position on male-male eroticism” as , “homosexuality” meant male femininity, Marxism, and Judaism. His position was “manly Eros” that was spiritual rather than lustful, and was experienced discreetly among “healthy and respectable fellows” in the Nazi Party militia. • Homosexuality was associated with cross dressing and transvestitism • He argued that most Nazis would overlook homoeroticism in the barracks as long as the men in question did their “duty.” Queer Liberalism and the end of gay history • Most adopted queer political position has been liberalism • Represented in the U.S. by groups like the ACLU and the Human Rights Coalition, queer liberalism applied classical liberal theory to sexuality • Can see people like Rohm in current society. One of the leaders of Germany’s current far-right party, the Alternative for Germany, is openly lesbian • History of sexuality shows how liberal gains can be dramatically reversed. EG: Weimar Republic has advanced gay rights, ripped apart by Nazis. Republic nearly repealed its sodomy law in 1929. But harsh sodomy laws remained on the books in West Germany into the 1960s; the United States only scrapped its sodomy laws in 2003. 1

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