Pierre Seel, who was imprisoned in a concentration camp during World War II for homosexuality, died last week in Toulouse, France. Filmmaker Rob Epstein interviewed Seel for his film Paragraph 175, a ...

The documentary, screened in conjunction with the library’s “Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings” exhibit, features commentary by the five surviving victims of the Nazis’ ...

Germany’s parliament felt remorse that "Paragraph 175" was maintained after the war. The law was officially removed in its entirety in 1994, the news outlet said. German authorities have compensated ...

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Watching director Sebastian Meise’s “Great Freedom” is a process of watching the main character, Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski), get brutalized and dehumanized. The narrative takes place almost ...

Men who are still alive will get compensation for what they suffered under Paragraph 175 against homosexuality Germany’s cabinet has approved a bill to overturn the convictions of thousands of gay men ...

On Thursday, September 15th at 6:30 p.m., film and television producer Howard Rosenman (Father of the Bride, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) will be town for the Memphis premiere of his documentary ...

Germany has vowed to rehabilitate and compensate gay men convicted in the post-war era under homophobic laws carried over from the Nazi era. Federal justice minister Heiko Maas made the announcement ...

During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Thousands were murdered in concentration camps. This ...