Didn't know all the rainbow people were persecuted in the holocaust and not just the homosexuals.

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[–]mvmlego 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

To be fair to the guy who posted that, I don't think the Nazis were nuanced enough to distinguish between a homosexual person and, for example, a bisexual person or a transvestite (who would probably identify as "queer" nowadays).

[–]motss-pb 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They actually did distinguish between transvestism and homosexuality. In the era before Nazi Germany, homosexuality was outlawed while transvestism was not. In fact, transvestite passports were issued since 1914, allowing people to live as the opposite sex. This continued until at least 1940. For example, in 1941, the Interior Ministry decided that a trans man could keep their name change

"the ministry felt it would be 'an unjustifiable hardship' and 'probably quite impossible' for him to start living as a woman again." (The Administration of Gender Identity in Nazi Germany, Caplan)

Transvestism wasn't specifically targeted in the way that male homosexuality was. Martin Damman found so many photos of cross-dressing Nazis that he published a book of them in 2018. And according to one historian's answer on reddit, hundreds of people attended transvestite balls in Berlin as late as 1940.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8mpebv/were_there_any_transgender_people_in_the_holocaust/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

[–]hetisachoice 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

So that means the T is a privileged class and LGB is not.

[–]mvmlego 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Huh. My bad. Thanks for the info!