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Chapter Eight
HOMO-FASCISM AFTER HITLER
History never repeats itself, man always does.
Voltaire (In Cecil Genese,
The Holocaust: Who Are The Guilty?)
One of the symbols with which homosexuals in the United States have chosen to represent their movement is the phoenix, a mythical bird that was said to burn itself on a funeral pyre every five hundred years and then rise from the ashes more majestic than before (Alyson Almanac:56). A more apt symbol for the historic cycle of homo-fascism and resulting social chaos would be hard to find. From the ashes of Nazi Germany, the homo-fascist phoenix has arisen again this time in the United States.
The Fascist Roots of the American Gay Movement
The first gay rights organization in the United States was an American
chapter of the German-based Society for Human Rights (SHR). The German
SHR, formed in 1919 by Thule Society member Hans Kahnert, was a militant
organization led by Butch homosexuals. Many of the early Nazis, including
SA leader Ernst Roehm, were also SHR members.
The American SHR was formed
on December 10, 1924, in Chicago, by a German-American named Henry Gerber
(J. Katz:388). Gerber had served with the U.S. occupation forces in Germany
from 1920 to 1923 and had been involved with the German organization. Together
with a small group of fellow revolutionaries, Gerber legally chartered
the group without revealing its purpose and began publishing a pro-homosexual
journal called Friendship and Freedom (ibid.:389), patterned after the
German chapters publication of the same name (ibid.:632n.).
In 1925, however,
the organization collapsed when Gerber, Vice President Al Menninger and
another member were arrested on charges of sexual abuse of a boy, all three
having been turned in by Menningers wife. The Chicago Examiner ran a story
titled Strange Sex Cult Exposed, and spoke of strange doings in Menningers
apartment. Menninger confessed, but Gerber claimed the incident was a set-up,
saying that their arrests were shades of the Holy Inquisition. Rather
than take his chances in court, however, Gerber hired a lawyer who knew
how to fix the State Attorney and judges and the case was dismissed (ibid.:392).
After going underground for a time, writing under the pen-name Parisex,
Gerber reemerged in 1934 on the staff of a pro-homosexual literary magazine
called Chanticleer (ibid.:394). He also retained his ties to the German
SHR and published several articles in their publications (ibid.:633n.).
In
Chanticleer, Gerber revealed himself as a militant socialist who regarded
capitalism and Christianity as the twin pillars of ignorance and repression
of sexual freedom (ibid.:394). In response to the news of the Roehm Purge
in the American press, he admitted that the Nazis were led by homosexuals
and praised Roehm and his valiant men (ibid.:396). Gerber is quoted at
length in Katzs Gay American History regarding the Nazi regime. He writes,
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A short time ago an American journalist pointed out in the liberal Nation that the whole Hitler movement was based on the homosexual Greek attachments of men for each other, and the same Jewish author stated that it was another of the Hitler contradictions that the Leader should have acquiesced in the burning of the books of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld...Thus we get a glimpse of the insanity of the whole movement: A Jewish doctor working for the interests of homosexuals is persecuted by a heterosexual mob, led by homosexuals (Gerber in J. Katz:395).
It is interesting to note that the homosexual inclinations of the Nazis were a matter of at least limited public knowledge in the United States at this time, as well as their Greek origins. We can also infer from this passage that Gerber himself was not an overt fascist, though he clearly identified with the Brownshirts in Germany. Open fascism in the homosexual movement would come later, but Gerber and his pederastic friends had established its foundation. By 1972, when he died at the age of 80, Gerber had witnessed the emergence of homo-fascism as a permanent theme in the movement.
American Nazis
Like its German counterpart, the American Nazi movement presents a decidedly
anti-homosexual face to the world, while hiding widespread homosexuality
among its leaders.
George Lincoln Rockwell formed the American Nazi Party
in 1959. Rockwell exemplified the narcissistic personality type so typical
of male homosexuals, but we have no solid information that he was gay.
However, one researcher noted that Rockwells small group was riddled
with homosexuals. Jeffrey Kaplan, a well-known scholar of extremism...writes,
gays made up a significant if carefully hidden part of George Lincoln
Rockwells American Nazi Party in the 1960s. The same source reports that
in America homosexuality continues to be a secret of postwar American
National Socialism(Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report, Fringe
of the Fringe, Issue No. 100, Fall 2000.
Frederick J. Simonelli addressed
the issue of homosexuality in the American Nazi Party in his 1999 biography
of Rockwell, American Fuehrer. He reports that Rockwells rhetoric, like
Hitlers, was viciously anti-homosexual, but that questions about his private
life and those of his staff persisted
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Homosexuality within the ranks of the ANP was a constant concern to Rockwell
and a constant source of speculation among his enemies. There is a tendency
for queers to come here, Rockwell admitted to a hostile interviewer at
the ANPs Arlington Barracks; then he quickly distanced himself homosexuals
by adding, because to a queer, this place is as tempting as a girls school
would be to me. According to FBI surveilance, Rockwells fear of gay storm
troopers was well founded. The ANPs Western Division, particularly, was
shaken by the revelation that the units chief, Leonard Holstein -- who
was also half-Jewish -- was gay.
Persistent rumors of gays within the ANPs
top echelon -- primarily centering on Rockwells chief of staff, Matt Koehl
-- damaged the party....[while] throughout Rockwells career...[speculation
persisted] about his own sexual orientation....Without digressing into
a psychological analysis, suffice it to say that Rockwells emphatic and
frequent affirmations of his own masculinity raise questions about his
subconscious (Simonelli:77ff).
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Another branch of the American Nazi movement, the National Socialist League, was openly homosexual:
Founded in 1974 by defecting members of the National Socialist White Peoples Party, this San Diego-based NSL is unique in restricting its members to homosexual Nazis. Led by veteran anti-Semite Russell Veh, the group distributes membership applications declaring NSLs determination to seek sexual, social and political freedom (Newton:46).
While normally low-profile, the NSL stirred a controversy in 1983 when
it attempted to market an infamous 1930s Nazi hate film that had been
pirated by the group. An article in the Los Angeles-based Heritage and
S.W. Jewish Press, titled Gay nazis peddling vile Jud Suss film,
named Veh and the National Socialist League. We are most familiar with
Mr. Veh (which is an alias, incidentally) and his notorious operations,
said legitimate film distributor, David Calbert Smith III (Heritage and
S.W. Jewish Press, September 16, 1983). Veh solicited members for his group
through a publication called The N.S. Mobilizer and through personal
ads in homosexual publications, including the leading national gay magazine,
The Advocate (Reisman, 1994:57).
Before disappearing in the 1980s, the
National Socialist League put out a journal NS Kampfruf. (Southern Poverty
Law Center Intelligence Report, Fall 2000).
The most famous incident in
the history of the modern American Nazi Party (a decade after Rockwells
assassination in 1967) resulted from its 1977 demand to stage a march through
the largely Jewish neighborhood of Skokie, Illinois, a Chicago suburb and
the home of many Holocaust survivors. This plan was devised by Frank Collin,
who often appeared with his followers in full Nazi regalia: brown shirts,
black boots, and armbands with swastikas and who advocated that all African-Americans,
Jews and Latinos be forcibly deported (Johansson:129). Civil authorities
effectively blocked the march at first, but the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) rose to Collins aid. The Nazis won the right to march but
a settlement was reached in which the City of Chicago and not Skokie became
the site. The subsequent event drew international media attention.
Homosexualists
Johansson and Percy, in Outing: Shattering the Conspiracy of Silence, have
finally revealed, more than fifteen years later, that Collin was a homosexual
pederast. In 1979 Collin was arrested for taking indecent liberties with
boys between ages 10 and 14 and was sentenced to seven years in prison
(Johansson and Percy:130).
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Gay Nazi Skinheads
Today, Nazism survives primarily in a broad international skinhead movement
made up of disaffected white male youths. Not surprisingly, homosexuals
are among the most influential leaders of Nazi skinhead culture. For example,
in England, birthplace of the movement, the notorious National Front (NF)
was headed by gay skinhead Nicky Crane. As reported by Murray Healy in
Gay Skins, Crane [was] by his own admission a devout Nazi who idolized
Hitler (Healy:134). Crane actively sought to revive the street-terrorism
of the Nazi Brownshirts in the British urban centers [trying] to create
a street fighting force...for street destabilization, fighting at sports
events and keeping up racial attacks...[S]kinheads giving Nazi salutes
and chanting racialist slogans [became] a common sight (ibid:124).
Searchlight
magazine reported that
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At over six foot tall and extremely violent, Crane was the archetypical nazi skinhead, so much so that it was his picture that adorned the cover of Strength Through Oi, a seminal Oi album [music of the skinhead movement]. As a nazi Crane was involved in much violence, including gay bashing. Yet at the same time, presumably unbeknownst to those close to him in the nazi scene, he was a hardcore gay porn star...[In 1993] he died of AIDS (Searchlight:September, 1999).
In the 1970s, the best known gay nazi was the National Fronts national
organizer, Martin Webster (ibid). Another homosexual nazi, Peter Marriner,
was a leader in both the National Front and another fascist group, the
British Movement (Searchlight:August, 2000).
The Nazi skinhead movement
has now spread far beyond England. Healy writes that the same alignment
of skinhead and fascist is also occurring globally...as far-right groups
in Europe, Australia and parts of the United States have imported skinhead
imagery as the uniform for its urban terrorists (ibid:205).
In France,
the neo-Nazi movement is closely and openly tied to the gay community.
One of the founders of the fascist group Franciose Nacionale is also the
editor of the homosexual publication Gaie France (Andriette, Bill, Is
Gaie France Fascist? NAMBLA Bulletin, September, 1992). Meanwhile, back
in Germany, the alarming increase of neo-Nazi skinheads is also linked
to homosexuality. Elmay Kraushaar, a journalist for Der Spiegel, the German
equivalent to Time Magazine, is quoted in The Advocate:
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There is a gay skinhead movement in Berlin. They go to cruising areas with leaflets that say, We dont want foreigners. A major leader of the neo-Nazis in Germany, Michael Kuhnen, was an openly gay man who died of AIDS two years ago. He wrote a paper on the links between homosexuality and fascism, saying fascism is based on the love of comrades, that having sex with your comrades strengthens this bond (Anderson:54).
In The Beast Reawakens, author Martin Lee described Kuhnen as the most
important neo-Nazi of the 1980s, calling him the fuehrer of the Action
Front of National Socialists, whose open homosexuality did not diminish
his stature in the fascist community (Lee:195). Kuhnens comrade and
successor, Christian Worch, was jailed in 1994 in connection with crimes
of violence and racial hatred (Neighborhood Queen Internet Posting, Dec.
1, 1994). Another prominent German neo-Nazi leader, who is also homosexual,
is Bela Ewald Althans (Searchlight: September, 1999). The subject of two
neo-Nazi recruiting videos, Althans was jailed in 1995 for inciting racial
hatred.
We must emphasize that not all skinheads are Nazis, and fewer
still are open homosexuals. As Healy notes A skinhead does not signify
fascism as unequivocally as the swastika (Healy:142). Nevertheless, the
movement has become virtually synonymous with gay fascism in certain
circles. Skinhead identities writes Healy, have become increasingly
popular among gay men since the mid-1980s....So widespread are these elements
[of skinhead styles] in British urban gay networks that they have ceased
to signify skinhead, sending out the message Im gay instead. (Healy:2f).
The connections between skinheads and homo-fascism are not as well known
in the United States, even though this country hosts numerous gay Nazi
organizations. One such group is the American Resistance Corps (ARC),
which offers the following history on its website:
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ARC was founded by an American skinhead with the help of a Canadian skin who were dissatisfied with the state of the skinhead nation (so to speak). These two skins were both firm believers in white racialism. They also happened to be gay. The founding of ARC was a response to the two extreme ends of the skinhead scene. On the one hand were gay skinheads who denied racialism and on the other hand were non-gay racialists who advocate group hatred for gays....ARC skinheads have the pleasure of being both traditional fascists and progressive activists (ARC website, www.geocities.com/ARCOrg /Historical.htm).
The skinhead movement is not the exclusive home of gay Nazis in America
today. Less youthful homo-fascists can be found in other Nazi and white
supremacist groups. For example, The Arizona Republic ran a headline story
on April 12, 1996 about a sting operation that netted 30 Aryan Brotherhood
members who had allegedly smuggled guns and drugs into prisons. One of
us (Lively) spoke to a detective with firsthand knowledge of the case.
The detective, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that he had
observed a high incidence of homosexuality in this white supremacist organization.
Lee reports that neo-Nazis David McCalden and Keith Stimely, both associated
with the California-based Institute for Historical Review, died of AIDS
in 1991 (Lee:226). It is presumed that they acquired the disease through
homosexual encounters. Another interesting news item is the case of Louisiana
Ku Klux Klan organizer Gregg David, charged with raping a black man in
1997 (Reuters, undated).
A final revelation about post-Hitler homo-fascism
comes to us from Hitlers homeland of Austria. There, powerful pro-Nazi
politician Jorg Haider, head of the Freedom Party, stepped down in the
Spring of 2000 amid rumors that he is homosexual. While there is no direct
evidence of his alleged homosexuality, the British newspaper, The Mail,
reports
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There are unsubstantiated claims that he has been spotted in gay bars in Vienna; what is beyond dispute is the fact that the charismatic leader has surrounded himself with fanatical young men, some of whom have confirmed their homosexuality...This is the man who has appeared to justify Hitlers death camps as punishment centers, and who has proudly declared that his parents were Nazis...The Freedom Party is referred to as the Buberlpartie - the young boys party -- and the Press talks about Haider surrounding himself with young functionaries faithful to him...[including] its general manager Gerald Mikscha...named in the German Press as Haiders gay lover (The Gay Acolytes haunting Haider, The Mail on Sunday (UK), April 30, 2000.
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Nazi Themes in Gay Culture
Glorification of Nazi styles and symbolism would be virtually unthinkable in mainstream society, but the homosexual community flatly rejects such limitations. Within just a few short years after the hard won Allied victory over the Nazi regime, American gay style setters were already adopting Nazism imagery as their own. Healy writes
As Kenneth Angers films (most notably Scorpio Rising) attest, flirtation with Nazi fantasies and the use of fascist iconography were not uncommon on the urban American homosexual underground leather scene of the 1950s (Healy:115).
Today, a simple perusal of the premier magazine of the homosexual movement, The Advocate, reveals that Nazi themes are common in the gay community. Reisman, who studied personal advertisements in The Advocate in issues from 1972 to 1991 found that the content of the ads reflected a fascist mentality. She writes,
Overall, 72% of THE ADVOCATE data socialized a set of core valuesglorified nazi dress, language and blonde Aryan male beauty and brutality; contempt for fems, fats, and blacks; threats toward politically incorrect homosexuals, churches and others Romanticizing fascist culture to a younger generation. Nazi costumes/fascist concepts are a common component of THE ADVOCATE and thus largely condoned by prevailing gay cultural values (Reisman:1992, 57).
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Other elements of gay culture demonstrate a similar pro-Nazi ideal. One popular film, by Finnish gay rights advocate Iippio Pohjala, is titled Daddy and the Muscle Academy (1992). Tom, the hero in the film, is a homosexual fascist and a pornographer. The film, combining themes of pederasty and Nazi glorification, was shown in San Francisco on June 26, 1992, at the Castro Theatre. It was part of the 16th Annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. A reviewer for the San Francisco Examiner provided the following description of the film:
Daddy and the Muscle Academy candidly acknowledges Toms infatuation with body types encouraged by the National Socialists. His fantasies...[involve] sex between clean-cut Finnish boys and storm troopers, the swastika flying behind them (Bonetti: San Francisco Examiner, June 26, 1992).
A review of a stage production of Cabaret in The Washington Blade (September 1, 1996) reveals a similar infatuation with Nazism.
[The director]...obviously aims to disquiet...the Emcee... sings the final line in a tight spotlight of the anthem to the Fatherland, Tomorrow Belongs to Me; and in a shocking move during the finale, he visually allies himself with Nazism. Clearly, the Emcee connects decadence, queerness, and Nazism...He raises frightening questions of queerness, fascism and doom in two periods: World War II and the end of the twentieth century.
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The attraction of American gays to Nazism is not the exclusive domain
of male homosexuals, however. Gertrude Stein, who, because of her relationship
with Alice B. Toklas, is described by The Alyson Almanac as half of history's
best known lesbian couple (149), was a great fan of Adolf Hitler. Toland
reports in Adolf Hitler that in 1937 Gertrude Stein thought Hitler should
get the Nobel Peace Prize (Toland:409). (The same source states that George
Bernard Shaw, a Fabian socialist and outspoken defender of homosexuality,
also defended Hitler...in magazine and newspaper articles -- ibid.:409.
Interestingly, Shaw is accused by Samuel Igra of being the true author
of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion a purportedly Jewish secret
planfor global conquest, which has ever since been used by anti-Semites
as proof of a Jewish world conspiracy -- Igra:1960.)
Where homosexuals
live in the highest concentrations, some seem to feel more comfortable
acting out Nazi fantasies. In Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist
Analysis, Susan Leigh Star, a Jewish sociologist, describes her experience
in San Francisco:
For four years I have lived in the Castro section of San Francisco, the gay (predominantly male) district. When I walk down the street in my neighborhood, I often see people dressed in black leather, wearing chains and sometimes carrying whips. In the magazine stores there are many sadomasochist publications. Often these include pictures of people wearing replicas of Nazi Germany uniforms. Iron crosses, storm trooper outfits, military boots. And swastikas. Once and a while someone on the street is dressed in full Nazi regalia (Star:132).
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Nazi Tactics in Gay Politics
I shall torture you during the daytime, and will keep you from a peaceful sleep at night.
Larry Kramer, Founder of ACT-UP (Leo:18).
The gay movement has done more than simply adopt Nazi styles and symbolism.
Homosexual strategists have also embraced the terroristic tactics of the
Nazi Brownshirts to advance their political agenda.
One of the most notorious
groups to employ Nazi thuggery is the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP)
which was founded in New York by Larry Kramer and approximately 300 other
activists in March, 1987. (Alyson Almanac:42). Within a few months its
members had gained national attention for their aggressive actions against
those whom they considered enemies. ACT-UP groups invaded Catholic churches
in New York during religious services, screaming obscenities and stomping
on communion wafers (Miller:460). Catholic churches were also targeted
in Washington, Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. Newspaper boxes were smashed
in Sacramento to punish an editor for his views (Grant, 1993:104). One
militant who later regretted his involvement was Washington, D.C. ACT-UP
founder, Eric Pollard. The following is an excerpt from his 1992 letter
to the Washington Blade titled, Time to give up fascist tactics:
This is very hard for me to write. It forces me to squarely confront my past actions and to accept responsibility for the damage I have had a part in causing. I sincerely apologize for my involvement in and my founding of the AIDS activist organization, ACT-UP D.C.. I have helped to create a truly fascist organization...The average Gay man or woman could not immediately relate to our subversive tactics, drawn largely from the voluminous Mein Kampf, which some of us studied as a working model (Washington Blade, January, 1992).
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In his 1998 War on Heterosexuality, author Michael P. Wright, quotes AIDS dissenter Alex Russell on the fascist character of contemporary gay activism.
Many attributes of the HIV Homofascist Movement (or HIVism) resemble those
of Fascism and the psychology of Freikorpsmen: an authoritarian personality;
extreme emphasis on the masculine principle, male dominance and blood brotherhood;
exclusive membership in an elite in-group; and the fetishization and aestheticization
of suffering, self-sacrifice and death.
Freikorpsmen made war a way of life....Many
HIV Blood Brothers see the war on AIDS as a way of death where the Freudian
pleasure principle and the death drive become indistinguishable. The Swastika
armband has now been replaced by the HIV positive tattoo and the red ribbon
(Russell in Wright:Chapter 5).
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Within a few years of its founding, ACT-UP spawned the more radical Queer Nation. Miller writes that Queer Nations in your face tactics antagonized some in the gay community. Randy Shilts [a prominent homosexual writer] called Queer Nationals brownshirts and lavender fascists (Miller:460). Queer Nation adopted highly militant rhetoric and openly threatened violence. Grant describes their tactics during an Oregon election campaign (see Introduction) in which voters considered a law to ban minority status based on homosexuality:
...flyers appeared on telephone poles warning people to vote against it. One showed the Christian ichthus fish being roasted on a stick over a fire. It read, YOU BURN US, WE BURN YOU...another said CIVIL RIGHTS or CIVIL WAR. Your choice for a limited time only...It also clarified what it meant by civil war by listing QUEER KNIVES, QUEER GUNS, QUEER BULLETS, QUEER MISSLES, QUEER TANKS, QUEER TRENCHES, QUEER FIRE, QUEER WARFARE, QUEER PATRIOTS (Grant, 1993:104f).
One of us (Lively) was active in that campaign and personally witnessed
stencils painted on sidewalks in the City of Portland which threatened
Queers Bash Back. In the City of Eugene businesses that had supported
the Oregon Citizens Alliance (which had sponsored the ballot initiative)
had bricks, wrapped in swastika-embellished flyers, thrown through their
windows. A Queer Nation spokesman in Eugene denied responsibility but defended
the violence as justified. A separate organization which called itself
Bigot Busters specialized in harassing and threatening petitioners seeking
signatures to put the measure on the ballot. Petitions were ripped from
circulators hands or doused with paint, activists blockaded petition tables,
and several circulators were physically assaulted. Hundreds of false signatures
were put on petitions in an effort to invalidate them. In every case Bigot
Busters denied responsibility.
In classic Nazi style, the Oregon homosexual
activists cast themselves as victims during this campaign of violence.
A series of phony late-night cross-burnings were staged in the front yard
of Azalea Cooley, a black, apparently wheelchair-bound lesbian in Portland.
This highly publicized charade continued for six months and was blamed
on a climate of hate created by OCA. On the eve of the election, however,
police caught Cooley herself on video walking out of her own front door
with a wooden cross and materials to burn it. She later confessed to all
of the crimes (Oregonian, December 10, 1992).
As we have seen with Roehms
Brownshirts, the wrath of militant homosexuals can be fierce. On September
29, 1991, following Governor Pete Wilsons veto of Assembly Bill 101 (which
would have extended minority status to homosexuals) thousands of homosexuals
rioted in San Francisco, setting fire to a government building and clashing
with police. This fury is often turned against individuals and families
as well. Chuck and Donna McIlhenny experienced it after the San Francisco
Presbyterian church (where Chuck is the pastor) fired a homosexual organist,
sparking a wave of terrorism against their family and their church. They
describe the campaign of hatred that was waged against them in When the
Wicked Seize a City:
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The harassment started. Rocks, beer bottles, beer cans were thrown through the church windows on many occasions. Swastikas were carved in the church doors and drawn on our house. A window in our car was smashed out. Graffiti was spray-painted all over the church, house, and sidewalk. Anti-Christian, pro-homosexual leaflets were scattered around the neighborhood calling us Nazis, bigots, anti-gay, etc. Demonstrators would come into our Sunday services and disrupt the worship...One time a man came pounding and spitting on our front door in the middle of the night, screaming, Were going to get you McIlhennywere going to kill you politically! We were verbally threatened outside the house on the way to the car. There were daily 24-hours-per-day telephone calls. They began with screaming and obscenities. They graduated into phone calls describing our childrenby name, appearance, where they attended school, when they got out of school, and what sexually deviant behavior was to be practiced on the children before killing them...Then on 31 May 1983 at 12:30 a.m., someone actually attempted to follow through with their threats to kill us [by firebombing the house while the children were asleep inside] (McIlhenny and York:109f). [Authors note:The McIlhenny' survived these and other efforts against them and continue to serve the membership of their church in San Francisco].
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On April 12, 1996, a near-riot by 400 homosexual militants in Madison,
Wisconsin delayed a scheduled speech on The Pink Swastika by one author
(Lively). Shouting obscenities and slogans, activists invaded and occupied
the tiny Trinity Evangelical Fellowship church for nearly an hour while
hundreds of others banged on the outer walls and windows with rocks and
trash-can lids. Chants of Crush the Christians! and Bring back the lions!
could be heard through the windows. Police refused to clear the church
but later agreed to remove individual protestors who refused to be civil.
Eventually, the meeting was allowed to continue, though not before some
of the protesters went into the church basement and urinated and defecated
on the floor.
Meetings in Janesville and Stevens Point, Wisconsin were similarly
disrupted. For those who attended, however, the homo-fascism of the Wisconsin
gay community provided a living testimony to the validity of claims of
this study.
Attacks like these are not isolated incidents, but part of the
strategy for increasing the political power of homosexuals in American
society. Dr. Brian Clowes, in Debating the Gay Rights Issue, has compiled
the following advocacy of the use of terrorism and violence by gay fascists:
If [AIDS] research money is not forthcoming at a certain level by a certain
date, all gay males should give blood. Whatever action is required to get
national attention is valid. If that includes blood terrorism, so be it.
(Robert Schwab in Kirk Kidwell, Homosexuals Flex Muscles in Washington.
American Family Association Journal, January, 1988, pages 6 - 8).
We should
have shut down the subway and burned down city hall. I think rioting is
a valid tactic and should be tried...If someone took out [killed] Jesse
Helms or William Dannemeyer of California, I would be the first to stand
up and applaud. (ACT-UP member Michael Petrelis, quoted in Michael Wilrich.
Uncivil Disobedience. Mother Jones. December, 1990, page 16).
It's hard
to refrain from taking this man [Pat Buchanan] by the throat and squeezing
as hard as you can while you look at his ugly, disgusting face and watch
the eyeballs burst and pop out of their sockets. Or maybe you feel like
stepping on his face and squishing his demented brain until the rot oozes
out of it and onto the pavement. I have no problem imagining violence against
this wacko... (Michelangelo Signorile, editor-at-large of the homosexual
magazine Outweek, quoted in National Review, June 24, 1991. (Clowes:78f)
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In recent years, the gay movement has drastically reduced its use of
overtly terroristic tactics, probably because it made huge political gains
during the eight years of the Clinton administration. Increasingly, the
gay movement is being viewed more as a part of mainstream culture and
less as an alien and destructive sub-culture. In most cases, homosexual
activists no longer need to go to the streets to harass and intimidate
their opponents. They now can use their enormous power in media, academia
and government to marginalize and punish them. One example of this phenomenon
is the rise of so-called hate crimes legislation. Ostensibly, hate
crimes statutes are designed to deter violent criminal acts motivated
by prejudice against the victim. However, the authors perceive the enactment
of these laws (which are primarily sponsored by the gay movement), as
the first phase of a process to criminalize speech that is hostile to the
legitimization of homosexuality.
As it is currently envisioned, only speech
that occurs during the commission of a violent crime will be deemed criminal
under hate crimes statutes. Eventually, however, it is highly probable
that speech standing alone will be prohibited. This evolution has partially
occurred in California where the gay lobby pushed through a bill in 2000
which created a new category of hate crime called a hate motivated incident.
Assembly Bill 1785, signed into law by Governor Gray Davis, defines a
hate motivated incident as an act or attempted act which constitutes
an expression of hostility toward homosexuals or other protected groups.
As
we can see, then, homo-fascism did not die with Adolf Hitler. It lives
on in the neo-Nazi movement and in gay culture itself. Clearly, actual
Nazis exist today as a radical fringe of society with no real power to
threaten civilization. This would be a comforting realization if we presumed
that Nazism was itself the source of the evil that threatened to engulf
the world and was not merely the product of a deeper and still-enduring
social problem. Our thesis, however, is that Nazism was the consequence
of Germanys abandonment of Judeo-Christian morality and that the primary
sponsors of its transformation were homosexuals. If this thesis is true,
we would expect to find many parallels to the German experience in America,
as indeed we do.
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