Queer Holocaust educator here. Nazi persecution of queer people primarily targeted gay & bi men and transgender women, and it didn’t manifest in the form of mass murder. Queer people were not usually sent to death camps, nor were they shot en masse.

OMG I could have sworn I was. I am now!

OMG they just followed me. I don’t understand why antisemites are always wanting to follow me.

Attn: @fleurdeseldevie.bsky.social

I just followed you a few days ago and am so happy to have done so. Thank you so much for your obvious commitment to solidarity with the Jewish people. It is so rare today that I never take it for granted, and I wanted to make a point of recognizing it and saying thank you. ❤️

*transgender not transgendered. That was a stupid typo that I didn’t catch in time. I know better, and apologize for my error.

As for your claim that the Muslim world was queer-friendly, that’s an overstatement. The Muslim world was far more accepting than the Christian world was for most of its history, and there were some times and places that could accurately be called queer-friendly. But there was also much persecution.

Lesbians were targeted even less frequently, and only a handful of cases of their being imprisoned or sent to camps are recorded.

So there was definitely persecution, definitely thousand of deaths, but never mass murder as there was for Jews, Roma, and POWs.

When it comes to transgender women, exact numbers are incredibly hard to pin down, in part because the Nazis didn’t believe transgendered poeple existed and often recorded them as gay men. Trans men were sometimes targeted, but not to the degree gay men and trans women were.

Those sent to prison usually survived. Those sent to camps were those they considered “committed sodomites,” and those who were charged with “seducing German youth.” Their death rate in the camps is hard to pin down, but leading scholar Ruediger Lautmann estimates it was about 60%.

The Nazis believed homosexuality was a sickness, not an innate characteristic, so the usual punishment was prison. Some 100,000 gay men were tried for sodomy, and 50,000 were convicted. Of those convicted, 5-15,000 were sent to concentration camps, & the rest to prison.

Queer Holocaust educator here. Nazi persecution of queer people primarily targeted gay & bi men and transgender women, and it didn’t manifest in the form of mass murder. Queer people were not usually sent to death camps, nor were they shot en masse.

I’m going to go with racist.

I use 00 and I add vital wheat gluten to increase the protein content because I like the crust nice and chewy.

OH you wanted the steak tartare recipe not just the baguettes! Gotcha. The recipe doesn’t call for anchovies, but even if it did my husband is allergic. I get vegan Worcestershire sauce.

For all my transgender friends—trans men, trans women, nonbinary people—know this: you are not alone, and you are not an afterthought. A community that claims integrity must show it in the way it protects its most vulnerable.

May the memory of those lost be for a blessing.

What does it mean to remember? It’s acknowledging truth, bearing witness, and refusing to let erasure finish what violence began. We honor the dead by seeing them clearly, by speaking their names, and by recognizing the conditions that made their deaths possible.

I use a 3” ring mold to shape them. I make an indentation in the center before pulling the ring off, and I use that to hold a quail egg. Last, I arrange crostini all around the plate and sprinkle chives over it.

https://www.amazon.com/Hilstita-Seamless-Stainless-Cooking-Dessert/dp/B0D2ZS5YDZ

I’ll post pics of the entire dinner afterwards. Here’s the recipe.