Homocaust

See also: homocaust

English

Etymology

Blend of homosexual +‎ Holocaust. Possibly coined in 1986 in the Journal of Historical Review;[1] possibly attested already by the 1970s.

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:
      Much of lesbian/gay history claims that the Nazis pursued a campaign against homosexual men, similar to the mass murder of Jews, which lead[sic] 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).

Translations

References
  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
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