Homocaust

homocaust English Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust Etymology en homosexual Holocaust. Possibly coined in 1986 in the pseudoacademic, Holocaust-denial-focused Journal of Historical Review;"For the sake of convenience, I suggest that henceforward we all refer to the alleged Nazi extermination of homosexuals as "the Homocaust." (Journal of Historical Review, volume 6, issue 4, 1986.) possibly attested already by the 1970s. Proper noun en rare The persecution of homosexuals which occurred in Nazi Germany, when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them. 1991 (English translation), Massimo Consoli (original author), Homocaust: From the Reform of Soviet Codes in 1934 to the Slaughter in Nazi Fields: Persecution of Homosexuals in Russia Under Stalin and in Germany Under Hitler (originally in Italian: 1984, Massimo Consoli, Homocaust: il nazismo e la persecuzione degli omosessuali) en 2013 Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political 1409471799 Much of lesbian/gay history claims that the Nazis pursued a campaign against homosexual men, similar to the mass murder of Jews, which lead to a Homocaust, the systematic extermination of homosexual men. In an article published in 2002, Jim Steakley, an American activist and historian, looks back self-critically at how he and others contributed to the myth of a Homocaust in the early 1970s (Steakly 2002: 55, also Jellonek and Lautmann 2002: 12). Translations mass murder or persecution of homosexuals French: fr homocaust m German: de Homocaust m Italian: it homocausto Spanish: es homocausto m References German Proper noun m de rare Homocaust