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homocaust

see also: Homocaust

Noun

homocaust (uncountable)

(rare) A systematic persecution of homosexuals, especially the one which occurred in Nazi Germany (the Homocaust), when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.
- 2006, Florence Tamagne, A history of homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris, 1919-1939 (Algora Publishing, ISBN 9780875863559, page 397:
  To speak of a "final solution" or a "homocaust" for homosexuals is an absurdity that denigrates the homosexual cause.
- 2013, The Hidden Holocaust? ISBN 1134260989, page 5
  Another view sometimes heard is that the Nazis' loudly trumpeted policy of 'eradicating' homosexuality amounted to a ‘homocaust’ somehow comparable to the extermination of the Jews.

Homocaust

Proper noun

(rare) The persecution of homosexuals which occurred in Nazi Germany, when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.
- 1991(?), Massimo Consoli, 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 (apparently translated from Italian)
- 2013, Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political ISBN 1409471799:
  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).

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