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According to [[Gay rights]] activists, the [[Nazis]] targeted [[homosexuals]] during the [[holocaust]] in a way comparable to the [[Jewish]] population.

According to [[Gay rights]] activists, the [[Nazis]] targeted [[homosexuals]] during the [[holocaust]] in a way comparable to the [[Jewish]] population.

However, homosexuals were not exterminated as Jews were, although approximately 100,000 men were arrested for homosexuality, out of an estimated homosexual population of one million.<ref name=HTRC/><ref name=USHMM/>  Only about 5,000 to 15,000 of these were interned in [[concentration camps]].

However, homosexuals were not exterminated as Jews were, although approximately 100,000 men were arrested for homosexuality, out of an estimated homosexual population of one million.<ref name=HTRC/><ref name=USHMM/>  Only about 5,000 to 15,000 of these were interned in [[concentration camps]]. Paragraph 175 banned homosexuality long before Hitler was even born.

 

Paragraph 175 banned homosexuality long before Hitler was even born. As The Pink Swastika by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams pointed out, 85% of Nazi homosexuals were of the Butches faction while the other 15% were of the Femmes faction, and as the Butches persecuted the Femmes, today's LGBT movement is not monolithic either as they claim that drag queens offend the transgender.

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Nazi Germany did not seek to kill all homosexuals. . . [but] the Nazi state, through active persecution, attempted to terrorize German homosexuals into sexual and social conformity".<ref name=USHMM>

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Nazi Germany did not seek to kill all homosexuals. . . [but] the Nazi state, through active persecution, attempted to terrorize German homosexuals into sexual and social conformity".<ref name=USHMM>

==Homosexual Nazis==

==Homosexual Nazis==

In his book, "The Pink Swastika," Lively<!--does lively have a first name?--> claims that although the Nazis did persecute homosexuals, the homosexuals the Nazis persecuted were almost exclusively the effeminate members of the gay community in Germany, and that much of the mistreatment was administered by masculine homosexuals who despised effeminacy in all its forms.<ref>http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fischer/080515 The truth about  homosexuality and the Nazi Party</ref>

In his book, "The Pink Swastika," Lively<!--does lively have a first name?--> claims that although the Nazis did persecute homosexuals, the homosexuals the Nazis persecuted were almost exclusively the effeminate members of the gay community in Germany, and that much of the mistreatment was administered by masculine homosexuals who despised effeminacy in all its forms.<ref>http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fischer/080515 The truth about  homosexuality and the Nazi Party</ref> As he pointed out, 85% of Nazi homosexuals were of the Butches faction while the other 15% were of the Femmes faction, and as the Butches persecuted the Femmes, today's LGBT movement is not monolithic either as they claim that drag queens offend the transgender.

== See also ==

== See also ==