Wer die Situation für die LGBTQIA+-Community verbessern will, ist täglich mit sehr vielen negativen Schlagzeilen konfrontiert. Auch das gebetsmühlenartige Hinweisen auf Diskriminierungen ist auf die Dauer ermüdend. Das kann für viele Außenstehende den Eindruck erwecken, es sei ein schweres Los,...
Did you know that during the Nazi era 15,000 people were sent to concentration camps for same-sex love? Did you know that these people were labelled with a pink triangle and were even considered by other camp inmates as being...
It was just short of 25 years ago that a new Germany, keen to be progressive, struck Paragraph 175 out of its Criminal Code and thus – for the first time in Germany’s history – completely decriminalized homosexuality. Two and a...
Up to 15,000 homosexual men were deported to concentration camps during the reign of National Socialist terror, and of these, more than 60 percent would not survive the abuse, forced labour, hunger and illness they met with. Like other concentration...
I cannot give a comprehensive account here of the legal and social circumstances that led to the persecution of homosexuals during the Nazi era. Instead, I would like to discuss the conditions of their internment. There is no doubt that...
DDr Barbara Glück has been the director of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial since 2005. She understood our request right away and gave it her support. While the volunteers were on site at the memorial to take part in our...
“We’ve just got word of this*, but today, the Austrian Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum denied a Chechen residence in Austria on the grounds that Russia supposedly has an intact LGBTQI+ scene – even though we know that gay...
Anbid Zaman is a twenty-two-year-old LGBTIQ activist currently living in Cologne. He grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he lived until 2016, when he had to leave the country to save his life after two of his fellow activists were...
Sudeene Suckoo (34) is currently living in Giessen, Germany. He has fled Jamaica because living there as a gay man had simply become unbearable and too dangerous for him. After being chased, robbed and attacked on several occasions, he made...
