The Struggles

The Coming Out of Memory: The Holocaust, Homosexuality, and Dealing with the Past

 Arnaud Kurze

Title of the journal/publication: Kritika Kultura

URL or web address: https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/kk/article/view/3094/2915

   In recent years, the LGBT community has gain passage and international support particularly United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC) to acknowledge to have rights globally. However the history of the LGBT community is a bit complex because the society didn't perceive Lesbians, gay, bisexuals, and Transgenders as norms. It was really hard for them despite the fact according to the saying "All men are created equal" the community still struggles to fight for equality. And looking back and reading the history of it really breaks my heart:(( I cannot imagine just by being gay is punishable by death. You were perceive to be toxic to the society, the mere existence of you is a disgrace to the society as if you were sick and you had to be exterminate before you could start a plague. So Inhumane and heartbreaking.

However, past is past, the wrongdoings have been acknowledge and corrected but how come it took so long? This where the journal comes in, it retraces the history of the LGBT community on how they struggled and dealt with the past by memorialization process.

  The main idea is the challenges and struggles that the LGBT community still have to face up until now (to fight for equality and protection). Since it is still overshadowed by a burdensome past of persecutions, including in particular the repression of sexual minorities during the Nazi regime that lead to western gay victimhood. Although it took long to acknowledge the wrongdoings and recognize the victims. As well as retracing how gay victims, i.e. dealt with the past, Nazi terror and the Holocaust in World War II.  

Frankfurt Angel on Klaus Mann square

Evidence that supports the main idea:

   ·   The extent to which governments grant these minority rights and protect individuals from abuses,

       however, still varies greatly across regions and countries (Weiss and Bosia; Picq and Thiel).

   ·    While gender issues have drawn scholarly attention to issues of women’s rights and sexual

       violence during conflict especially in recent years (Aoláin, Haynes, and Cahn; Branche and

       Virgili; Inal), academic literature on dealing with the past on male homosexuality issues remains

       limited.

Cologne memorial for Gay and Lesbian victims of National Socialism

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