Homocaust
See also: homocaust
English
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Etymology
[edit]Blend of homosexual + Holocaust. Possibly coined in 1986 in the pseudoacademic, Holocaust-denial-focused Journal of Historical Review;[1] possibly attested already by the 1970s.
Proper noun
[edit]Homocaust
- (rare) The persecution of homosexuals which occurred in Nazi Germany, when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.
- 1991 (English translation), Massimo Consoli (original author), Homocaust: From the Reform of Soviet Codes in 1934 to the Slaughter in Nazi Fields: Persecution of Homosexuals in Russia Under Stalin and in Germany Under Hitler (originally in Italian: 1984, Massimo Consoli, Homocaust: il nazismo e la persecuzione degli omosessuali)
- 2013, Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political, →ISBN:
- Much of lesbian/gay history claims that the Nazis pursued a campaign against homosexual men, similar to the mass murder of Jews, which lead[sic] to a Homocaust, the systematic extermination of homosexual men. In an article published in 2002, Jim Steakley, an American activist and historian, looks back self-critically at how he and others contributed to the myth of a Homocaust in the early 1970s (Steakly 2002: 55, also Jellonek and Lautmann 2002: 12).
Translations
[edit]mass murder or persecution of homosexuals
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References
[edit]- ^ "For the sake of convenience, I suggest that henceforward we all refer to the alleged Nazi extermination of homosexuals as "the Homocaust." (Journal of Historical Review, volume 6, issue 4, 1986.)
German
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Homocaust m (proper noun, strong, genitive Homocausts)