Did you know that the law banning homosexuality in Germany that the Nazis used to start their persecution of queers was founded in 1532, under the Holy Roman Empire, as described in the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina.
Did you know that law stayed on the books til 1994?
in further genocidal news: conservatives are currently violating patient privacy protections to create lists of queer people so they can be tracked down and attacked with the might of the state.
@exiliaex holy shit. But was it still enforced in the nineties?
@Harryhol not in the same way, no. there were pushes to change it. the most significant of those pushes happened in the 70s, when the law was adjusted to only apply to sex with minors instead of homosexuality. but, crucially, the law actually had different age-of-consent laws for homosexual acts than for heterosexual acts.
heterosexual age of consent was 14, homosexual age of consent was 21, in the 70s that age of consent was lowered for homosexuality to 18.
@exiliaex a rly good book i was reading was about this, and it was p good tbh https://www.amazon.co.uk/States-Liberation-Dictatorship-Democracy-European/dp/1487542143
Basically, it talks about both west/east germany and how these laws compare, plus explains the years before and after. I'd definitely recommend.
if you want to read more it's called Paragraph (or Section) 175.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph_175
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/paragraph-175-and-the-nazi-campaign-against-homosexuality