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Urban Outfitters under fire for selling tapestry resembling gay Holocaust garb
Urban Outfitters has come under fire for selling a line of Nazi-reminiscent tapestries resembling garments worn by gay men in Hitler’s concentration camps.
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Lawmaker behind Tenn. ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill compares Obamacare to Holocaust
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An anti-gay Tennessee state lawmaker who has spent much of his legislative career sponsoring anti-LGBT bills, has likened the insurance requirement under President Barack Obama’s health care law to the forced deportation of Jews during the Holocaust.
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Israel city unveils gay Holocaust victims memorial
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s cultural and financial capital unveiled a memorial Friday honoring gays and lesbians persecuted by the Nazis, the first specific recognition in Israel for non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
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Israel honors gay Holocaust victims in first national memorial
TEL AVIV — A new monument to pay tribute to Jewish and non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust who were persecuted by the Nazis for their sexual orientation has been unveiled in Tel Aviv.
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LGBT History Month profile: Holocaust survivor Gad Beck
Gad Beck was a Holocaust survivor who helped gays and Jews escape the Nazis. He was born in Berlin to a Jewish father and a Protestant mother who converted to Judaism. In 1943, Beck and his father were seized by the Nazis.
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Gad Beck, last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, dies at 89
BERLIN — Gad Beck, a pioneering gay rights activist and educator in a severely anti-homosexual, repressive post-World War II German culture, has died, just six days before his 89th birthday. Beck was believed to be the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust.
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President Obama remembers gay Holocaust victims
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday spoke at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to mark Yom HaShoah, or the Holocaust Remembrance Day, and during his speech the president referred directly to the homosexual victims of Nazi persecution.
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Last believed gay Nazi concentration camp survivor dies at age 98
BERLIN — The man thought to be the last remaining gay survivor of the Nazi Holocaust has passed away at the age of 98. Rudolf Brazda had been imprisoned by the Nazi regime for homosexuality and was sent to the Nazis’ Buchenwald concentration camp in August 1942 and held there until its liberation by U.S. forces in 1945.
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More AFA hate: ‘Nazi party formed in gay bar by homosexual thugs’
In case you’re not yet convinced that the American Family Association is a certified hate group, the AFA’s top hate monger, Bryan Fischer, on Thursday told his radio listeners that the Nazi Party in Germany was formed in a Munich gay bar by “homosexual thugs.”