Gay literature is a collective term for literature produced by or for the gay community which involves characters , plot lines, and/or themes portraying male homosexual behavior. (Full article... )
Josef Kohout (24 January 1915 – 15 March 1994) was an Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor, imprisoned for his homosexuality . He is best known for the 1972 book Die Männer mit dem rosa Winkel (The Men With the Pink Triangle ), which was written by his acquaintance Hans Neumann using the pen name Heinz Heger , which is often falsely attributed to Kohout. The book is one of very few first-hand accounts of the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi imprisonment. It has been translated into several languages, and a second edition published in 1994. It was the first testimony from a homosexual survivor of the concentration camps to be translated into English, and is regarded as the best known. Its publication helped to illuminate not just the suffering gay prisoners of the Nazi regime experienced, but the lack of recognition and compensation they received after the war's end.
Kohout's book inspired the 1979 play Bent , by Martin Sherman , which was made into the movie Bent , directed by Sean Mathias , in 1997. (Full article... )
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Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist one. Call it out as such. ... Be outraged, offended, angry and intolerant of any discussion or any one who describes you as unequal, undeserving or unnatural for being just as you are.
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