The Homosexual Roots of the Nazi Party (By Scott Lively)

The "gay rights" movement often portrays itself as an American
phenomenon which arose from the civil rights movement of the 1950s. It
is not uncommon to hear homosexualists (those both "gay" and
"straight" who promote the legitimization of homosexuality)
characterize "gay rights" as the natural third wave of civil rights
activism (following blacks and women). In reality, however, Germany
was the birthplace of "gay rights," and its legacy in that nation is
truly alarming.

The "grandfather of gay rights" was a homosexual German lawyer
named Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. Ulrichs had been molested at age 14 by
his male riding instructor. Instead of attributing his adult
homosexuality to the molestation, however, Ulrich devised in the 1860s
what became known as the "third sex" theory of homosexuality. Ulrichs'
model holds that male homosexuals are actually female souls trapped
within male bodies. The reverse phenomenon supposedly explains
lesbianism. Since homosexuality was an innate condition, reasoned
Ulrichs, homosexual behavior should be decriminalized. An early
follower of Ulrichs coined the term "homosexual" in an open letter to
the Prussian Minister of Justice in 1869.

By the time Ulrichs died in 1895, the "gay rights" movement in
Germany had gained considerable strength. Frederich Engels noted this
in a letter to Karl Marx regarding Ulrich's efforts: "The pederasts
start counting their numbers and discover they are a powerful group in
our state. The only thing missing is an organization, but it seems to
exist already, but it is hidden." After Ulrichs' death, the movement
split into two separate and opposed factions. One faction followed
Ulrichs' successor, Magnus Hirschfeld, who formed the Scientific
Humanitarian Committee in 1897 and later opened the Institute for Sex
Research in Berlin. The other faction was organized by Adolf Brand,
publisher of the first homosexual magazine, Der Eigene (The Special).
Brand, Benedict Friedlander and Wilhelm Janzen formed the Gemeinschaft
der Eigenen (The Community of the Special) in 1902. What divided these
groups was their concepts of masculinity. Ulrichs' theory embraced a
feminine identity. His, and later Hirschfeld's, followers literally
believed they were women trapped in men's bodies.

The followers of Brand, however, were deeply insulted by Ulrichs'
theory. They perceived themselves not merely as masculine, but as a
breed of men superior in masculine qualities even to heterosexuals.
The Community of the Special (CS) asserted that male homosexuality was
the foundation of all nation-states and that male homosexuals
represented an elite strata of human society. The CS fashioned itself
as a modern incarnation of the warrior cults of ancient Greece.
Modeling themselves after the military heroes of Sparta, Thebes and
Crete, the members of the CS were ultra-masculine, male-supremacist
and pederastic (devoted to man/boy sex). Brand said in Der Eigene that
he wanted men who "thirst for a revival of Greek times and Hellenic
standards of beauty after centuries of Christian barbarism."

One of the keys to understanding both the rise of Nazism and the
later persecution of some homosexuals by the Nazis is found in this
early history of the German "gay rights" movement. For it was the CS
which created and shaped what would become the Nazi persona, and it
was the loathing which these "Butches" held for effeminate homosexuals
("Femmes") which led to the internment of some of the latter in slave
labor camps in the Third Reich.

(Second Installment)