The "Fabulous" Jewish Pop Princess Lady Gaga...

[LordLindsey]

I am very curious as to what all of you have to say about this epitomy of Zoharite philopshy *do what thou wilt* as she is the absolutely best example that I can give anyone of how far common humanity has fallen from what used to be acceptable behavior.

I DO have to be honest and say that I really like her music, but the reality is that she is a cocaine-fueled one-human show of how women across this planet should not live their lives as "productive" members of the human race; the separation of the music from the singer can not be made by me; however, because I know in my heart that she is playing her role in the utter destruction of the moral fibre of human decency just as the feminist movement before her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ95z6yw ... =topvideos

LINDSEY

[LordLindsey]

Wanna take a ride on my disco stick?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mB0tP1I-14

LINDSEY

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

We need the "Ugliest Jews" thread right here at TIU. Lady Gag and Sandra Barfhard can headline it.

[§N9sh2bj]

jewdar went off.
not especially pretty ala mcdonna, er madonna ++and++ she uses some made-up stupid name.
watching her for ten seconds only cemented my conclusions
looking up her family history left no surprises.

the siren's song is sweet; sends many sailors to their deaths. - you have been told before by your ancestors to be very wary, 'as wise as serpents'. Did you listen?

[Rockclimber]

While I agree that this lady is one big whorebag and does fit into the "do what the wilt shall be the whole of the law"...is she a jew? I haven't found the proof yet. She sure is skanky though. She is a product of the jew TV/pop culture to be certain.

[Free Truth]

I DO have to be honest and say that I really like her music...

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[Free Truth]

She doesn't seem to have talent and when you actually see her she isn''t quite attractive. So I can't help but wonder why her?

[Rockclimber]

She doesn't seem to have talent and when you actually see her she isn''t quite attractive. So I can't help but wonder why her?

I just watched part of that Disco Stick video and I have to concur. She is very unattractive...she has a manly face and although her body isn't bad, it's all she has going, but then her slutty ways kills it for me. She may well be part of the tribe, at least in spirit.

[Father Brown]

A couple of things. I heard or read that she is of Italian extraction. Although, I don't believe it. Katy Perry claims to be the child of two Evangelical Christian parents and I also find that one a little hard to swallow. I sincerely believe that Jews know they have to start hiding if they are going to behave like this.

"Goo-Goo, Ga-Ga" is something babies utter. I guess we are supposed to go ga-ga over her.

Her videos are laden with Illuminati visual imagery.

[Father Brown]

She doesn't seem to have talent and when you actually see her she isn''t quite attractive. So I can't help but wonder why her?

I just watched part of that Disco Stick video and I have to concur. She is very unattractive...she has a manly face and although her body isn't bad, it's all she has going, but then her slutty ways kills it for me. She may well be part of the tribe, at least in spirit.

Oh yes. I also wanted to comment on this. If you notice, she quite often wears a choker collar or some kind of scarf around her neck. There are many rumors around that Ga-Ga is actually a pre-op transexual who is hiding an Adam's apple. And whether or not it is true does not matter as this gives her buzz and the idea that it could be true is just as effective from a degeneration of culture point of view.

The so-called "gay community" love her outfits and the entire concept and she claims they were the first to support her concept.

[Bela]

however, because I know in my heart that she is playing her role in the utter destruction of the moral fibre of human decency just as the feminist movement before her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ95z6yw ... =topvideos

LINDSEY

The video promotes lesbianism.  I wouldn't call it feminism, except in the sense that feminism in the 60's became something hijacked by lesbians and mainly promoted lesbianism.  The main winners in the modern feminist movement have been lesbians.  

In spite of that, I wouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater on account of their antics.  The "feminists" also got women the vote - women couldn't vote in the good ol' USA until 1920, and that change was due to "feminism".   It's also the reason why women can now freely get into med school and get credit in their own names.

[Helphand]

There are some puffs about "Lady" G. being hermaphrodite.

Certainly a press photo I saw contains more than the suggestion of an adam's apple.

However that is not conclusive since among other things the cartledge can be shaved.

More conclusive would be examining the hands and specifically, the length of the fingers. Do some research on male athletes, womb testosterone levels and respective finger lengths - and comparisons of men's respective finger length averages with women's.

Regarding Katy "Perry", Perry is fairly meaningless as an indicator. First, they always pretend to be someone else - this is THE message of Pinay's "The Plot Against the Church". Whether race, nationality, religion etc etc.
That's why Fat Alex is RIGHT; it IS the Jesuits, the Order of the Knights of St John, the Committee of 300, the Freemasons, the Knights of Malta, the Ancient Order of Druids, et al,.... because these are all FRONTS used by the usual suspects and in which they have infiltrated and/or inserted their agents.

Second, Perry is in that list of apparently (largely) indigenous names which I've experienced being unduly represented in the usage of the Hole in the Wall Gang. Including among others:
Allen, Austin, Ayers, Blane/Blaine, Buffett, Copeland, Dykes, Gardner, Goddard, Goldsmith, Gordon, Graham, Hays/Hayes, Hillman, Hirst/Hurst (Hirsch), Holland, James, Lane, Leslie, Lewis, Lopes/z, Love/Lowe, Lucas, Moss, Orr, Otero, Osorno, Page, Perrin, Perry, Porter, Singleton, Walters...

[Bela]

I spent a lot of time in Bangkok and saw quite a few ladyboys (katoeys) - the standard giveaway is narrow hips in conjunction with broad shoulders.  I also went to art school - those of us trained in life drawing are well aware of the inverted triangle (average male profile) and upright triangle (average female profile)  - in the military, it is known that females have an easier time with situps than the males because of the females' wider pelvic area.  Gaga has somewhat narrow hips but also feminine shoulders.  

Female runners are often slight in the hip area - it's an advantage, speed wise.

[Free Truth]

http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=1676

Sample:

Her logo is pretty revealing and particularly fitting. Its a headless female body with a bolt of lightning  going through her and exiting  her genitalia. There is once again a focus on the lack of conscious thought by the singer. The body looks like the weird headless mannequins you find at clothing stores. The bolt of lightning implies that her thoughtless body has been "charged" with a force that gives it life (interesting note: trauma-based mind control is often induced using electro-shock treatments).


Some interesting write ups there...

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

America and Britain are Weimer Germany today.

 Let's do a quick comparison:
1. Bankrupt.
2. Corrupted by Socially debased Jews.
3. Run by insular and crowing Jewish experts that popularize debasement.
4. Scammed by Jews.
5. Inundated by Jewish porn and perversions that is popularized in the media.
6. Overwhelmed by a Jewish celebration of Junk culture, Junk role-models and Idiocy in a stinking stream of cheap Jewish laughs and crap advertising.
7. Jews in the press, in politics and in banking basically sell out the collective culture and bond people have between one another for moral good.
8. Religion is debased.
9. Jewish Conspiracies and Jewish crimes go unpunished.
10. The money is debased by Jewish speculators. Taxes are levied to bailout Jewish bankrupt schemes and social manipulations.


Weimer Germany reflected the Protocols by page and paragraph.
You can take it and compare it page by page with the USA and Britain today.

They don't know it yet, but It will come full stop. --The CSR

--------

Sexuality and struggle in Weimar Germany


Magnus Hirschfeld
 

Noel Halifax starts a series on the history of gay rights by looking at how socialists played a crucial role in the first modern gay rights movement

Few people today know the history of the gay rights movement. Most people would be surprised to discover that the struggle for sexual and gay liberation has been thoroughly interwoven with the history of the socialist movement.

One high point for both movements was in Germany from the late 19th century through to the Weimar Republic of the 1920s. The fate of Germany in this period determined most of what was to follow till the post-war period.

Gay politics was one aspect of this – and the German socialist movement played a crucial role in the fight for gay rights.

Germany's socialist party, the SPD, was the largest Marxist organisation of its time, a mass party with a wealth of cultural and social functions as well as political ones. It had influence throughout the working class and almost functioned as a society within a society.

The SPD had many faults, its creeping conservatism and reformism being among the most obvious. But when it came to campaigning for gay rights, the party had a magnificent record that shames most political parties today.

Male homosexuality had been outlawed in the kingdom of Prussia in the 1860s. In 1871 this prohibition was extended across the newly unified nation-state of Germany, in the notorious paragraph 175 of the country's penal code.

In 1897, the campaigning doctor and gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld set up the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, which campaigned for the repeal of paragraph 175.

The committee and Hirschfeld became the centre of the gay movement from this time right through to the 1930s. In all they did they depended on the backing of the SPD and later the KPD, the German Communist Party.

Hirschfeld himself and his organisation were moderates and had ideas about homosexuality that we would now consider rather strange.

He believed for example that gay men and lesbians formed a "third sex" that combined physical and emotional characteristics of both male and female.

He argued that gay people should not be blamed or punished for their actions, as it was a natural aspect of being a member of this third sex.

Hirschfeld launched a petition against paragraph 175 which reached the German parliament on 13 June 1898. He found that the SPD was that only party to support his campaign.

August Bebel, a leading SPD activist, took the petition into the German parliament and argued for gay reform – the first instance of gay reform being argued in any parliament. All leading SPD figures signed the petition.

The party's newspapers covered the campaign widely, with leading articles on the "sex question" that argued that moral attitudes were historically variable.

The petition campaign led to a debate in parliament in 1905 with the SPD on one side and all the other parties on the other.

The SPD split in 1917 over support for the First World War. It became a reformist organisation, while revolutionaries who would go on to form the Communist Party (KPD) supported the October 1917 Russian revolution and argued for a total transformation of society, including full gay liberation.

Hirschfeld remained in the SPD and founded his Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin in 1919. This was the famous Weimar period with its gay subculture. In the 1920s the KPD was awash with ideas on liberation and new ways of living.

Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, joined the KPD and argued for a total liberation from all bourgeois ideas, including sexual inhibitions.

Like Hirschfeld, Reich had ideas about sexuality and psychology that we would now consider confused. But this was a period of experimentation and a search for liberation with the Communists at the centre of such campaigns.

During the struggle for gay rights in this period, Hirschfeld found that his campaigns were supported by the Communists, while the SPD's support was more hesitant.

All of this changed with the rise of Stalinism in Russia and the Nazis in Germany. The fate of both the gay and socialist movements was determined by the failure of Germany's revolution during that period.

Hirschfeld's institute was burned down by the Nazis on 6 May 1933, in one of their first acts after Hitler seized power.

Luckily Hirschfeld himself was out of the country at the time. He died in exile in 1935. Shortly afterwards, gays joined the socialists, trade unionists and Jews sent to the concentration camps by the Nazis.

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:C_7 ... =firefox-a

[Bela]

If you want to know more about the Nazi-Gay thing, try the book "The Pink Swastika" http://www.thepinkswastika.com/5294/10701.html

Excerpt:
I was led into the study of the "Wise Man of Berlin" (as he was called)...Sitting on a silk-covered fauteuil, legs under him like a Turk, was an individual with bloated lips and cunning, dimly coveting eyes who offered me a fleshy hand and introduced himself as Dr. Hirschfeld...[Later in a meeting of the SHC] the first to greet me was a corporal with a deep bass voice; he was, however, wearing women's clothes... "A so-called transvestite!" commented Dr. Hirschfeld, whose nickname was "Aunt Magnesia," and introduced us...Then a most beautiful youth appeared..."A hermaphrodite!" said Hirschfeld.  "Why don't you come to me during my office hours tomorrow, you can see him naked then"...An older gentleman in his sixties...recited a poem...to a sixteen year old youth, full of yearning...I turned to Laurent, who was the only kindred spirit in this pack of lemurs, "Tell me, haven't you noticed that we're in a downright brothel here?" (Blueher in Mills:160f).

From http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/boo ... apter4.htm

There is insufficient evidence to warrant the conclusion that Hitler was an overt homosexual.  But it seems clear that he had latent homosexual tendencies...It is true that Hitler was closely associated with Ernst Roehm and Rudolf Hess, two homosexuals who were among the very few people with whom he used the familiar du ["thou"].  But one cannot conclude that he therefore shared his friends' sexual tastes.  Still, during the months he was with Hess in Landsberg, their relationship must have become very close.  When Hitler left the prison he fretted about his friend who languished there, and spoke of him tenderly, using Austrian diminutives: "Ach mein Rudy, mein Hesserl, isn't it appalling to think that he's still there."  One of Hitler's valets, Schneider, made no explicit statement about the relationship, but he did find it strange that whenever Hitler got a present he liked or drew an architectural sketch that particularly pleased him, he would run to Hess — who was known in homosexual circles as "Fraulein Anna" — as a little boy would run to his mother to show his prize to her...Finally there is the nonconclusive but interesting fact that one of Hitler's prized possessions was a handwritten love letter which King Ludwig II had written to a manservant (Waite, 1977:283f).  [Hess was known by other names in the German "gay" subculture.  In recent years, long sealed Soviet archives have been opened to the West.  In Deadly Illusions, authors John Costello and Oleg Tsarev report of seeing the "so-called 'Black Bertha' file, named from Hess's reported nickname in Berlin and Munich" (Costello and Tsarev:xix).]

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Bela,

We've examined the Hitler was a fag question on some posts. After looking at all the evidence, it didn't appear Hitler was gay. Remember that the writers of much of this material are Jews and seek to pull out any Socialist Propaganda from that time on the gay Brownshirts or Nazis. Look at the following claims by Kevin Abrams... they are simply ridiculous bullsh*t considering testimonies of many people surrounding Hitler.  Again, August Kuzbiek's testimony is one that isn't clouded by propaganda from that time. Kuzbiek talks about a crush Hilter had on a girl for much of youth who was, ironically, part Jewish. At no time in the years that Kuzbiek knew the young Hitler did it appear that Hitler was a fag in any way. A lost idealist and at times anti-social, yes, but definitely not a fag.  The promotion of Gay Rights has always been championed by society's Corrupters who follow the Protocol's of the Elders of Zion.  It's just another wedge to divide people. It is a shameful practice in any society and before God above.    

--The CSR


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Kevin Abrams: The other side of The Pink Swastika
Posted on June 4th, 2009 by Warren

This title is a play on a 1994 article by Kevin Abrams, published in Peter LaBarbera's Lambda Report, titled, "The Other Side of the Pink Triangle." Abrams is co-author of The Pink Swastika and organizer of an organization called the International Committee for Holocaust Truth. This organization produced three reports with the same message as The Pink Swastika. As noted in the first paper, the group believes,

    Hitler's plans for a "1000 Year Reich," is a "Homofascist" Conspiracy which still thrives today disguised as "gay" rights. Today's Holocaust memorial museums are being co-opted as part of a broader homosexualist strategy.

Current American Nazis would violently take issue with this view, but that is a topic for another post.

The ICHT seems to consist of Howard Hurwitz, Judith Reisman, Christopher Barder, Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams. Hurwitz is a former school principal and heads a small group called the Family Defense Council. As far as I can tell, the FDC does not have a website but has various writings and descriptions scattered on the web (e.g., here and here).

As noted yesterday, the attempt to link Nazis and gays (as a movement) seems to have been triggered by outrage over the "gay holocaust" metaphor and a desire to prevent that metaphor from generating public support for gays in in the 1990s. Abrams piece on the pink triangle was circulated among activists during this period and brought at least one scholarly refutation. Christine Mueller of Reed College wrote a piece which examined and refuted the essential claims of the Abrams' article. Abrams then replied with a rebuttal.

Mueller points out the massive leaps of logic and fact required to make National Socialism an invention of a cohesive homosexual plot. Here is one example:

    The abuse to which he subjects Heiden's Der Fuehrer [a book about Hitler] is particularly flagrant. To suggest Hitler's homosexuality, for example, Abrams changes Heiden's text: "With Roehm and Heines, Stennes helped to impose the rule of the homosexuals over the SA" to: "with Roehm and Heines, Hitler helped to impose the rule of Roehm's exclusively homosexual clique over the SA." (58) Abrams has Roehm writing from Bolivia that he intended "to spread the culture," whereas in the original, he spreads "culture," i.e. Kultur. (59) In another example, Heiden describes a factional feud inside the party, during which Goebbels, taking sides against Hitler, called him a "vain operetta queen" (60) — a play on Hitler's popular title, "The King of Munich." In Abrams' rearrangement of the text, Goebbels is referring to Roehm and appears to be complaining about his homosexuality (61). Since in German the word queen (Koenigin) has
    no reference to homosexuality whatsoever, this error speaks volumes for the quality of Abrams' scholarly credentials. These selected instances must suffice to show how assiduously Abrams has doctored his quotations; it would be tedious to list them all.

What makes The Pink Swastika and other materials like it difficult to critique for the casual reader is this kind of revisionism. Quotes are slightly altered; or even given properly but then the meaning is altered out of historical context. Readers interested in the details should read Abrams' initial article, the Mueller critique and then Abrams' rebuttal. The essence of Abrams arguments comes back to the quote above:

    Hitler's plans for a "1000 Year Reich," is a "Homofascist" Conspiracy which still thrives today disguised as "gay" rights. Today's Holocaust memorial museums are being co-opted as part of a broader homosexualist strategy.

Mueller's response points out the errors of fact and context which are driven by confirmation bias and apparent outrage over a perception that another undeserving group was appropriating the holocaust metaphor.

Prior posts in this series:

May 28 – Scott Lively (co-author of the Pink Swastika) wants off SPLC hate group list


List of posts on Uganda and The Pink Swastika
http://wthrockmorton.com/2009/06/04/kev ... -swastika/

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

jewdar went off.
not especially pretty ala mcdonna, er madonna ++and++ she uses some made-up stupid name.
watching her for ten seconds only cemented my conclusions
looking up her family history left no surprises.

the siren's song is sweet; sends many sailors to their deaths. - you have been told before by your ancestors to be very wary, 'as wise as serpents'. Did you listen?

Yep §N9sh2bj, the Jewdar is flashing....(Corrupting) Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew....

[Bela]

We've examined the Hitler was a fag question on some posts. After looking at all the evidence, it didn't appear Hitler was gay.

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I didn't say Hitler was gay.  I gave a quote that said he may have been surrounded by some followers who were.  The part saying that he had "latent homosexual tendencies" is not something I agree with - I believe that you can have close friendships with the same sex, whether or not they're gay, without having "latent tendencies".

20's and 30's Berlin was full of homosexual activity - because it was widespread, chances are good that some homosexuals might have infiltrated Hitler's organization, perhaps flying under Hitler's radar (gaydar?)

This title is a play on a 1994 article by Kevin Abrams, published in Peter LaBarbera's Lambda Report, titled, "The Other Side of the Pink Triangle."

I am very much aware of LaBarbera - I used to send him things of interest because I was having a great deal of difficulty with a large group of homosexuals at my job in Japan.  Close to 2/3 of the English teachers at various colleges I worked at were gay (at one, they were about 90%), and the problem was their territoriality.  

I am not religious, nor do I care one way or the other what someone does in their spare time.  I have had a lot of experience dealing with gays, mostly because I have trained in the visual arts, where they tend to predominate (and not necessarily because of talent).   In spite of my complete acceptance and tolerance, these people (at my job and at college) would often band together (tribally) and try to oust anyone who wasn't in their clique.  

I later found out that what I was dealing with was not so much a homosexual thing but an issue related to substance abuse (and the subsequent nasty behavior that results, including "territoriality"  -  more on not so benign behavioral aspects of substance abuse here http://www.10547.info/thorburn/tsari.html ).  

It may have been at NARTH.org where I read it - they have a very high rate of alcohol and drug use - close to 70% (average population rate is about 10%).  This is probably due to the fact that many of them are from ethnic backgrounds predisposed to alcoholism.  Has nothing to do with "stress" or "social rejection" (we're getting on another topic here, so I'll just leave it at that).  Given the stats, it's no wonder that the main meeting place for the gay community is usually a bar.  

I worked in a couple of places where there were "closet cases" who resented the effeminate gay men and would either distance themselves or try to get rid of them.  If you look into men's gay personals, often you see this line "no fats or femmes" - they are looking for someone who is the epitome of masculine.  

Part of Abrams thesis is that the butch closet cases were instrumental in putting the mostly femme homosexuals into the camps.  This rang a bell with me, based on my own observations.  I cannot determine whether his evidence on this is valid, but the situation certainly sounds familiar.  


Christine Mueller of Reed College wrote a piece which examined and refuted the essential claims of the Abrams' article.

I don't know what to make of this feud.  Reed writes on Jewish issues and may very well be a lesbian, in which case, she has a vested interest in this - is she a scholar of things German?  Is she qualified to do such a study?  I know she's an historian, but usually they specialize.    

In Abrams' rebuttal he admits some of her corrections were right: http://wthrockmorton.com/wp-content/upl ... abrams.pdf

I recall reading Abrams' book a long while ago.  He might have taken some info from "Memoirs of a Sexologist" written by Dr. Ludwig Levy Lenz.  Lenz has a chapter on Magnus Hirschfield (p 387) where he seems to have quite a high opinion of him.  Lenz is also pro-pornography.  On the other hand, Lenz has a low opinion of Hitler, whose regime interfered with the sex institute that Hirschfield set up.  The chapter on Hitler (p 427) is not flattering.  

I don't know if Abrams was cherry picking his info, but that may be the case.  Mueller may be guilty of the same issue.  In any case, Mueller, Abrams, Lenz and Hirschfield are all Jewish - this affects their point of view and I doubt if twisting of facts would be beyond any of them.  

The truth is in there somewhere -  it's just hard to shovel all the crap off of it without having some qualifications in modern German history and language.

[Anonymous]

http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=3423

[§N9sh2bj]

While I agree that this lady is one big whorebag and does fit into the "do what the wilt shall be the whole of the law"...is she a jew? I haven't found the proof yet.

Jews are not a race, though they believe highly in it and race in general (at least, that's what we see)
Jews are not 'a people',
Jews are not a religion, although some try to pass themselves off as religionists.

They are people who have forsworn their membership in the family of man. Although they are technically in it and cannot leave, they are also dead-set against it. Self-destructive. The one playing the role 'Lady Ga Ga' fits into the definition perfectly.

Know them by what they do.


Mike, the kind of 'proof' you seem to seek is not the proof available - those facts are on the moon.

The proof, is in the pudding.

As people holding the position of absolute needing of some kind of racial heritage 'book' or 'record', get unstuck from 100% requirement on paper of some kazar/ashkenazi/sephardi ('spanish') ancestry, there is the freedom to call a spade a spade.

Are you going to define a jew by their terms, or yours?

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Weimer America

Spingola Speaks, 2012-07-19 12:00:54, HOUR 1Thursday, July 19, 2012 12:01 AM
Guest: Rodney Martin
 
Rodney Martin talked about Weimar Germany, its origins and its applicability to the United States today. He also contrasted the NSDAP's economic and social policies.

His web site is World View Foundations:

http://wvfoundations.org/


http://216.240.133.177/archives32/Sping ... 110000.mp3

http://216.240.133.177/archives32/Sping ... 120000.mp3

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America and Britain are Weimer Germany today.

Let's do a quick comparison:
1. Bankrupt.
2. Corrupted by Socially debased Jews.
3. Run by insular and crowing Jewish experts that popularize debasement.
4. Scammed by Jews.
5. Inundated by Jewish porn and perversions that is popularized in the media.
6. Overwhelmed by a Jewish celebration of Junk culture, Junk role-models and Idiocy in a stinking stream of cheap Jewish laughs and crap advertising.
7. Jews in the press, in politics and in banking basically sell out the collective culture and bond people have between one another for moral good.
8. Religion is debased.
9. Jewish Conspiracies and Jewish crimes go unpunished.
10. The money is debased by Jewish speculators. Taxes are levied to bailout Jewish bankrupt schemes and social manipulations.


Weimer Germany reflected the Protocols by page and paragraph.
You can take it and compare it page by page with the USA and Britain today.

They don't know it yet, but It will come full stop. --The CSR

--------

Sexuality and struggle in Weimar Germany


Magnus Hirschfeld


Noel Halifax starts a series on the history of gay rights by looking at how socialists played a crucial role in the first modern gay rights movement

Few people today know the history of the gay rights movement. Most people would be surprised to discover that the struggle for sexual and gay liberation has been thoroughly interwoven with the history of the socialist movement.

One high point for both movements was in Germany from the late 19th century through to the Weimar Republic of the 1920s. The fate of Germany in this period determined most of what was to follow till the post-war period.

Gay politics was one aspect of this – and the German socialist movement played a crucial role in the fight for gay rights.

Germany's socialist party, the SPD, was the largest Marxist organisation of its time, a mass party with a wealth of cultural and social functions as well as political ones. It had influence throughout the working class and almost functioned as a society within a society.

The SPD had many faults, its creeping conservatism and reformism being among the most obvious. But when it came to campaigning for gay rights, the party had a magnificent record that shames most political parties today.

Male homosexuality had been outlawed in the kingdom of Prussia in the 1860s. In 1871 this prohibition was extended across the newly unified nation-state of Germany, in the notorious paragraph 175 of the country's penal code.

In 1897, the campaigning doctor and gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld set up the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, which campaigned for the repeal of paragraph 175.

The committee and Hirschfeld became the centre of the gay movement from this time right through to the 1930s. In all they did they depended on the backing of the SPD and later the KPD, the German Communist Party.

Hirschfeld himself and his organisation were moderates and had ideas about homosexuality that we would now consider rather strange.

He believed for example that gay men and lesbians formed a "third sex" that combined physical and emotional characteristics of both male and female.

He argued that gay people should not be blamed or punished for their actions, as it was a natural aspect of being a member of this third sex.

Hirschfeld launched a petition against paragraph 175 which reached the German parliament on 13 June 1898. He found that the SPD was that only party to support his campaign.

August Bebel, a leading SPD activist, took the petition into the German parliament and argued for gay reform – the first instance of gay reform being argued in any parliament. All leading SPD figures signed the petition.

The party's newspapers covered the campaign widely, with leading articles on the "sex question" that argued that moral attitudes were historically variable.

The petition campaign led to a debate in parliament in 1905 with the SPD on one side and all the other parties on the other.

The SPD split in 1917 over support for the First World War. It became a reformist organisation, while revolutionaries who would go on to form the Communist Party (KPD) supported the October 1917 Russian revolution and argued for a total transformation of society, including full gay liberation.

Hirschfeld remained in the SPD and founded his Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin in 1919. This was the famous Weimar period with its gay subculture. In the 1920s the KPD was awash with ideas on liberation and new ways of living.

Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, joined the KPD and argued for a total liberation from all bourgeois ideas, including sexual inhibitions.

Like Hirschfeld, Reich had ideas about sexuality and psychology that we would now consider confused. But this was a period of experimentation and a search for liberation with the Communists at the centre of such campaigns.

During the struggle for gay rights in this period, Hirschfeld found that his campaigns were supported by the Communists, while the SPD's support was more hesitant.

All of this changed with the rise of Stalinism in Russia and the Nazis in Germany. The fate of both the gay and socialist movements was determined by the failure of Germany's revolution during that period.

Hirschfeld's institute was burned down by the Nazis on 6 May 1933, in one of their first acts after Hitler seized power.

Luckily Hirschfeld himself was out of the country at the time. He died in exile in 1935. Shortly afterwards, gays joined the socialists, trade unionists and Jews sent to the concentration camps by the Nazis.

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:C_7 ... =firefox-a