The following excerpt of an earlier thread was posted by TigerLikesRooster in June. This new thread is an obvious attempt at using their media arm to re-explain the history of the "pink swastika." Hitler-was-gay must really bother the sodomite movement. Truth is truth, however.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b33b7e907fd.htm
Exploding the Myth of the “Pink Triangle.”
Excerpts from The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party (Founders Publishing Corporation, 1995) by Scott Lively and Kevin E. Abrams.
The following article was prepared by Scott Lively and was previously published in substantial part in Culture Wars magazine, April, 1996, and in The Journal of Human Sexuality (Lewis and Stanley, 1996).
The pink triangle, symbol of the “gay rights” movement, is familiar to many Americans. As the badge used by the Nazis to designate homosexuals in the concentration camps, the pink triangle perfectly expresses the message of “gay rights.” That message is that homosexuals are currently and historically victims of irrational prejudice and that those who oppose homosexuality are hateful bigots. This all-important victim status engenders sympathy for the homosexual “cause” among well-meaning heterosexuals. Thus, millions of otherwise rational Americans support a movement whose sole unifying characteristic is a sexual lifestyle they personally find repugnant.
When homosexuals display the pink triangle, they are equating all opposition to homosexuality with Nazism and themselves with the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. As pro-homosexual Rabbi Bernard Mehlman put it, “Homophobia and Anti-Semitism are part of the same disease.” [This issue is addressed at length in Section Three, How American ‘Gays’ are Stealing the Holocaust].
While a relative few homosexuals were interned in Nazi work camps, the role of homosexuals in Nazi history is not accurately represented by the pink triangle. Our review of more than 200 history and other texts written since the 1930s suggests that a pink swastika would be equally appropriate: while some homosexuals were jailed by the Nazi party, there is no doubt that the Nazi party itself had many homosexuals within its own ranks, even among its highest leadership.
The Homosexual Roots of the Nazi Party
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” which 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 (Kennedy in Pascal:15). Instead of attributing his adult homosexuality to the molestation, however, Ulrichs 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 (Lauritsen and Thorstad:6).
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 Ulrichs’ 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” (Plant:38). 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 (Steakley:23f.) and later opened the Institute for Sex Research in Berlin. The other faction was organized by Adolf Brandt, publisher of the first homosexual magazine, Der Eigene (The Elite). Brandt, Benedict Friedlander and Wilhelm Jansen formed the Gemeinschaft der Eigenen (The Community of the Elite) 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 Brandt, 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 (Greenburg:410). The Community of the Elite (CE) preached that male homosexuality was the foundation of all nation-states and that male homosexuals represented an elite strata of human society (Mills:152). The CE 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 CE were ultra-masculine, male-supremacist and pederastic (devoted to man/boy sex). Brandt 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” (Brandt in Oosterhuis and Kennedy:3).
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 CE 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. Plato, who originated the fascist model of government in The Republic (Weber:11), captures the spirit of the CE in another of his Dialogues, Banquet: “If it were possible to form a state or an army exclusively of homosexuals, these men would direct all their emulations toward honors, and going into battle with such a spirit would, even if their numbers were small, conquer the world” (Plato in Heiden’s Der Fuehrer:741). From today’s vantage point, Plato’s observation seems like an eerie prophecy of Nazism.