Digital Essays & Articles

Queer History & the Holocaust
This essay provides a concise historiographical overview of the key developments in the literature on queer Holocaust victims. By Dr. Anna Hájková. Notches: (Re)Marks on the History of Sexuality. (January 22, 2019) 

Sexuality and the Holocaust 
This essay demonstrates how studying gender and sexuality gives us tools to examine the dynamics of unequal relationships and the stabilizing and destabilizing effects of intimacy during the Holocaust. By Dr. Anna Hájková. Oxford University Press Blog (March 11, 2018)

Gay Men under the Nazi Regime
This Holocaust Encyclopedia article provides an introductory overview of the Nazis’ persecution of gay men. US Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Lesbians under the Nazi Regime
This Holocaust Encyclopedia article provides an introductory overview of the Nazis’ persecution of lesbians. US Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Paragraph 175 and the Nazi Campaign against Homosexuality
This Holocaust Encyclopedia article provides an introductory overview to Paragraph 175, Germany’s national anti-sodomy law that the Nazis used to prosecute gay men. US Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Pink Triangle Legacies: Holocaust Memory and International Gay Rights Activism 
This essay provides an overview of how the pink triangle was transformed from a concentration camp badge for gay prisoners in Nazi Germany into a logo of the gay liberation movement beginning in the 1970s. By Dr. Jake NewsomeNursingClio.org. (April 20, 2017)