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Auschwitz Museum Remembers Gay Men Who Were Murdered in the Holocaust

The Auschwitz-Birkenau museum, located at the site of the former German Nazi concentration camp in Poland, recognized on Sunday a gay victim of the Holocaust.

“At least 77 men with pink triangles were imprisoned in Auschwitz & another 25 could have been initially arrested for their real or alleged homosexuality but had a different prisoner category. Some scholars speak of up to 140 prisoners persecuted for their sexual orientation,” the museum tweeted.

The tweet was posted on the birthday of a German man named Johann Mauler, who was born on April 24, 1897, and imprisoned at the concentration camp from November 12, 1941, until his murder on February 14, 1942. He was one of at least 77 people imprisoned at Auschwitz for the crime of homosexuality, the museum notes. Those imprisoned for homosexuality were forced to wear a pink triangle on their prison uniforms.

Every day, the museum posts images of several victims of the camp along with where they were from, their career, and when they were killed by the Nazi regime.

The account noted the museum’s ‘Memory 4.0’ project, which is an online resource that explores the fate and persecutions of diverse groups of people deported to Auschwitz during World War II: political prisoners, Jews, Roma, Soviet POWs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and queer people.

The portal includes resources such as educator guides that help accurately discuss the course of history during one of the darkest periods in the world.

More than one million people were killed at Auschwitz, most of them Jewish.

About 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The institution reports that hundreds, maybe even thousands, of queer people were killed.

Read More | https://www.advocate.com/news/auschwitz-memorial-highlights-gays

Carolyn Bryant the woman whose accusation led to the lynching of Emmett Till has died at 88

In August 1955, 14-year-old Emmett was beaten and shot to death after he allegedly whistled at Bryant – now Donham – in Money.

Later, her husband, Roy Bryant, and J.W. Milam, took Emmett from his bed and ordered him into the back of a pickup truck and beat him before shooting him in the head and tossing his body into the Tallahatchie River. They were both acquitted of murder by an all-White jury following a trial in which Carolyn Bryant testified that Emmett grabbed and verbally threatened her.

Milam, who died in 1980, and Bryant, who died in 1994, admitted to the killing in a 1956 interview with Look magazine.

In 2007, a Mississippi grand jury declined to indict Donham on any charges.

Donham testified in 1955 that Emmett grabbed her hand and waist and propositioned her, saying he had been with “White women before.” But years later, when professor Timothy Tyson raised that trial testimony in a 2008 interview with Donham, he claimed she told him, “That part’s not true.”

The interview was included in Tyson’s book, “The Blood of Emmett Till.”

Read More on CNN | https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/27/us/carolyn-bryant-donham-emmett-till/index.html

The 1st Trailer for Pedro Pascal & Ethan Hawke’s Gay Cowboy Drama Is Finally Here!

“Years ago you asked me what two men could do living together on a ranch. I’ll answer you now.”

We finally have the first official trailer for Strange Way of Life, Pedro Almodóvar’s gay Western movie starring Pedro Pascal (Silva) and Ethan Hawke (Sheriff Jake). As the story goes, this film is supposed to be Almodóvar’s response to once being attached to direct Brokeback Mountain but not having the same vision for it as the studio.

This new gay cowboy drama will also feature actors José Condessa, Manu Ríos, Jason Fernández, Sara Sálamo, Erenice Lohan, George Steane, and Pedro Casablanc. It will premiere in May 2023 at the Cannes Film Festival.

You can watch the first trailer of Strange Way of Life below.