Antihomosexual propaganda
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Antihomosexual propaganda — organised social and political activity (public speech, public behavior, meetings and actions), based on negative and intolerant attitude towards LGBT people or same-sex relations. The antihomosexual propaganda supports anti-gay prejudices and stereotypes, promotes social stigmatisation and/or discrimination. The term "homophobic propaganda" was used by the historian Stefan Micheler in his work "Homophobic Propaganda and the Denunciation of Same-Sex-Desiring Men under National Socialism", [1] as well as other works treating the topic.[2]
In some countries some most severe forms of antihomosexual propaganda are considered hate speech and are prohibited by the law. In Russia, such propaganda can also be treated as illegal, because laws in Russia explicitly prohibit hate speech against any social group (not explicitly mentioning sexual orientation though), and LGBT can be considered as distinct social group. [3] But law specialists generally agree that in Russia the law is practically not working. Cases of criminal punishment for antihomosexual, nationalistic or other xenophobic hate speech are rare in Russia. [4]
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[edit] History of antihomosexual propaganda
[edit] Nazi Germany
Political attitude towards homosexual people in Nazi era of German history was based on the assumption that homosexuals are destroying German nation and are "enemies" and "sexual degenerates". Historian Erwin J. Haeberle in his work "Swastika, Pink Triangle and Yellow Star: The Destruction of Sexology and the Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi Germany" dates the first appearance of this political attitude in Nazi party to May 14, 1928, long before 1933, when Nazi party came to the power. [5]
[edit] Antihomosexual propaganda and law
[edit] Norway
Norway became the first country in which in the 1981 year a criminal penalty (a money payment or imprisonment for up to 2 years) for public threats, defamations, expressions of hate, agitation for discrimination against LGBT was added to Criminal Code.[6]
[edit] Dutch
On July 1, 1987 in the Netherlands became effective an addition to the Dutch Penal code, which established punishment for «public defamations on the basis of sexual orientation» as fees or imprisonment for up to two years.[7]
[edit] Ireland
In 1989 in Ireland a resolution against anti-gay hate speech came into effect. It establishes penalty in the form of fees or imprisonment for up to two years for publication or distribution of materials which contain defamations, threats, hate speech or offenses for LGBT people. [7]
[edit] Australia
On March 2, 1993 in New South Wales in Australia came into effect an amendment to the antidiscrimination law, which prohibits public hate speech, despisement or deridement of homosexual people. A legal exclusion is an information which is distributed for educational, religious, scientific or social purposes. [8]
On December 10, 1999 an analogous amendment was accepted by Tasmanian parliament. In this law no exclusions are permitted. [9]
[edit] References
- ^ Micheler, Stefan «Homophobic Propaganda and the Denunciation of Same-Sex-Desiring Men under National Socialism» // Journal of the History of Sexuality — Volume 11, Number 1 and 2, January/April 2002, pp. 105—130
- ^ "Faultlines: homophobic innovation in Gay Rights, Special Rights - Special Issue: Fundamentalist Media" in Afterimage, Feb-March, 1995 by Ioannis Mookas
- ^ The Constitution of Russian Federation
- ^ Hate crimes and their persecution in Russia
- ^ Haeberle, Erwin J. «Swastika, Pink Triangle and Yellow Star: The Destruction of Sexology and the Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi Germany». Journal of Sex Research 17:3 (1981): 270-87.
- ^ Norway General Civil Penal Code, §135 a.
- ^ a b Equality for lesbians and gay men. ILGA-Europe Report, June 1998
- ^ ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1977 - SECT 49ZT. Homosexual vilification unlawful
- ^ Rodney Croome. Tasmania - Changing Hearts and Laws // Sydney Star Observer, 14 January 1999
[edit] Bibliography
- Plant, Richard. The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals. New York: Holt, 1986. ISBN 0805006001
- Grau, Gunter. The Hidden Holocaust?: Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45. Routledge, 1995. ISBN 188496415X
- Heger, Heinz. The Men with the Pink Triangle: the True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps. Alyson Publications Inc., U.S., 1995. ISBN 0932870066
- Healy, Dan. How many victims of the antisodomy law. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia. The University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN 0226322343
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