homocaust

plural homocausts

1. rareA systematic persecution of homosexuals, especially the one which occurred in Nazi Germany (the Homocaust), when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.

   To speak of a "final solution" or a "homocaust" for homosexuals is an absurdity that denigrates the homosexual cause.

   2006, Florence Tamagne, A history of homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris, 1919-1939, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 397

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   However, the empirical basis for these arguments was established as early as 1977 by scholars who refuted the notion of a "homocaust," an idea that had been awarded wide currency by German gay groups in the early 1970s.

   2005, Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality and German Fascism, →ISBN, page 96

   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.

   2013, The Hidden Holocaust?, →ISBN, page 5

1. rareThe persecution of homosexuals which occurred in Nazi Germany, when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.

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   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)

   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).

   2013, Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political, →ISBN