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The irony behind Trump’s travel ban and Holocaust Remembrance Day
Like the many of Jews who perished in the Holocaust because the U.S. government wouldn’t grant them asylum, so will many Muslims
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Will Germany annul post-World War II homosexuality convictions?
Thousands of gay men were convicted under a law criminalizing homosexuality that was applied zealously in post-World War II West Germany.
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LGBT Rights: What have we learned from history?
Historically, discussions about the decline of morality have almost always been subsumed into fears about national security, and the rise of McCarthyism was no different. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that both communists and homosexuals had infiltrated the federal government and this, of course, was going to lead to the total destruction of America…
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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.