Retrofitting the history
It apparently didn’t occur to Peter Tatchell that we can all see the quoted bit and the image. They don’t mention any T+.
We can see it. We can read it. It’s right there in the Working Class History tweet. Lesbians & Gays support the miners. NO T IS MENTIONED.
There’s a fair bit of this goes on when you look for it. I was listening to an old (2022) episode of Heterodorx yesterday. Corrina Cohn (a trans women – transexual I think she goes by) was recounting being branded both transphobic and a Holocaust Denier for pointing out that trans people were not strictly targets of the Holocaust because at that time the modern use of the word was not in place. My understanding from other sources was the nazis rounded up gays, lesbians, miscegenists, bisexuals, transexuals, cross dressers (transvestites in old lingo), etc as ‘sexual deviants’. Gays and misceginists did get specific triangles in at least some concentration camps.
Only gay men were actually targeted by the Nazis, Rob. The others you mention would not have been “rounded up,” though they may have been harassed. They would be vulnerable mainly for reasons other than their sexuality.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lesbians-under-the-nazi-regime
LM, I’m no expert. A few podcasts and a bit of online reading is enough to be dangerous. Weirdly, lesbians seemed to generally get a free pass for the nazis. Largely because the nazis wanted them to see the error of their ways and start pumping out babies. of course, if they were jewish, Roma, Sinti, black, prostitutes, suffering from venereal disease, or unlucky enough to have pissed some off, well…
The evidence is that many groups were targeted by the nazis. the links below provide some context. The existence of not insignificant numbers of other groups in the concentration/death camp system and specific badges (which weirdly often vary from one camp to another) demonstrates that it wasn’t just random chance.
The miscegenation category of course overlaps with Jewish, Roma, Sinti, black (very widely defined – basically ‘not white’). It seems like the nazis tried to avoid arresting the aryan side of mixed marriages, but sometimes did so anyway and they’d sometimes end in camps.
I think we can agree it was horrific.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/what-groups-of-people-did-the-nazis-target
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws#Jews,_Romani_and_Black_people