The Holocaust is one of the best-documented episodes of mass genocide in history, but for decades, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans victims of the Holocaust were left out of historical records. Why were LGBTQ individuals persecuted, and why were their stories left out of the Holocaust narrative for so long? That’s what today’s show is all about.
 
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Ep24 – Activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Ep21 – LGBTQ History
 
Sources:

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