Shocking Free Gay — Validated

: From 1937 to 1993, the FBI maintained a massive file on "sex deviates," using it to target gay rights groups and harass individuals in the press and government.

: Some domestic leaders continue to use extreme rhetoric; for example, a Texas pastor was recently labeled a hate group leader after a sermon calling for gay people to be "shot in the back of the head". Psychological & Social Toll

: Practices like lobotomies and psychoanalysis were common until 1973, when homosexuality was finally removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Institutional Erasure

: After the war, LGBTQ+ victims were often excluded from memorials. In 2017, Germany finally voted to pardon and compensate survivors who had been imprisoned under "Paragraph 175," a law that criminalized male homosexual acts and remained in some form until 1994. Contemporary Dangers