The Specter of Persecution
Queer Women in the Third Reich
Thursday, May 9, 2024, 12:00 PM PDT | 3:00 PM EDT
Female homosexuality was not explicitly criminalized in Nazi Germany, but queer women were still viewed and persecuted as an outsider group. What did their lives look like in a discriminatory society where they were not formally targeted?
Join us on May 9 as Samuel Clowes Huneke, author of the award-winning States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany, uncovers stories about queer women during the Third Reich—their treatment in society and opportunities to resist.
Recovering Victims’ Voices
This talk is part of a new lectures series on marginalized victims of Nazi persecution. “Recovering Victims’ Voices: Black, LGBTQI+, Persons with Disabilities, and Roma Communities and the Holocaust” will highlight new and emerging scholarship on often un- or underexplored victims of Nazi persecution. The series demonstrates how historical identity-based hate influences contemporary discourse about race, gender, sexuality, and disabilities.
