English

Proper noun

Homocaust

1. (rare) The persecution of homosexuals which occurred in Nazi Germany, when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.
   • 1991(?), Massimo Consoli, Homocaust: From the Reform of Soviet Codes in 1934 to the Slaughter in Nazi Fields: Persecution of Homosexuals in Russia Under Stalin and in Germany Under Hitler (apparently translated from Italian)
   • 2013, Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political (ISBN 1409471799):

     Much of lesbian/gay history claims that the Nazis pursued a campaign against homosexual men, similar to the mass murder of Jews, which lead to a Homocaust, the systematic extermination of homosexual men. In an article published in 2002, Jim Steakley, an American activist and historian, looks back self-critically at how he and others contributed to the myth of a Homocaust in the early 1970s (Steakly 2002: 55, also Jellonek and Lautmann 2002: 12).

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1. ↑ "For the sake of convenience, I suggest that henceforward we all refer to the alleged Nazi extermination of homosexuals as "the Homocaust." (Journal of Historical Review, volume 6, issue 4, 1986.)

German

Proper noun

Homocaust m ‎(genitive Homocausts)

1. (rare) Homocaust

English

Noun

homocaust ‎(uncountable)

1. (rare) A systematic persecution of homosexuals, especially the one which occurred in Nazi Germany (the Homocaust), when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.
   • 2005, Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality and German Fascism (ISBN 1571815511), page 96

     However, the empirical basis for these arguments was established as early as 1977 by scholars who refuted the notion of a "homocaust," an idea that had been awarded wide currency by German gay groups in the early 1970s.

   • 2006, Florence Tamagne, A history of homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris, 1919-1939 (Algora Publishing, ISBN 9780875863559), page 397:

     To speak of a "final solution" or a "homocaust" for homosexuals is an absurdity that denigrates the homosexual cause.

   • 2013, The Hidden Holocaust? (ISBN 1134260989), page 5

     Another view sometimes heard is that the Nazis' loudly trumpeted policy of 'eradicating' homosexuality amounted to a ‘homocaust’ somehow comparable to the extermination of the Jews.

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