The Nazi Party itself was zealously anti-gay. Once in power, the Nazis murdered thousands of men for the “crime” of male-male sex. Yet, the historical record shows that a small number of men quietly belonged to both the homosexual emancipation movement and the Nazi Party, though they were not open about their sexuality within the party.
Laurie Marhoefer
Laurie Marhoefer is an associate professor of History at the University of Washington. She's also a historian of sexuality and politics in Europe and the U.S. in the twentieth century, with specialities in the history of Weimar and Nazi Germany and the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.