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Last homosexual survivor of the Holocaust dies

nonalina:

This is so touching. This guy seems like he was a pretty awesome dude.

But… and is it just me… or do people say a lot about the LGBT people who were oppressed during the Holocaust but not a whole lot about the asexual and demisexual victims? I AM NOT SAYING IT’S NOT AWFUL WHAT HAPPENED TO GAY PEOPLE BACK THEN. I’m panromantic myself. I just… I know that people on the asexual spectrum were targeted too, and I wish we had more of a voice.

I…. what? What? 

This is seriously not okay. For one thing, asexuals weren’t targeted as asexuals the way that gay people were. And for another, this is not a horrific event in history that had anything to do with asexuals—of course people are not going to discuss us. No one was out as asexual in the forties! No one knew it we existed—even the Kinsey Reports hadn’t been done yet. And frankly, this particular incident in history would have been a time at which I would have been grateful to be invisible. 

I just. I have no words. This, here? This is not a place where it’s appropriate to bring up asexuality at all. Seriously, no. Not our history, not our suffering, not our place to speak up. This is a time to listen to other people’s histories. 

(via nonalina-deactivated20110804)

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  3. antheia reblogged this from anedumacation and added:
    I concur: what ineffableshe said.
  4. heterodoxy reblogged this from of-praxis and added:
    o-m-g. I mean, I know we shouldn’t always just trust what’s in history textbooks, and that ‘history’ can end up revised...
  5. anedumacation reblogged this from of-praxis and added:
    Jesus Christ. Some of you seriously need to check yourselves. Basically, what ineffableshe said. Quality commentary....
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  7. raumlet reblogged this from wespecializeinhomosexualhairdos and added:
    The OP was a troll.
  8. wespecializeinhomosexualhairdos reblogged this from raumlet and added:
    saw this earlier,...stroke. Whoever was...being an injustice...
  9. raumlet reblogged this from ace-azaelia and added:
    okay WOW I am so sorry I wasn’t around today to call this person out and add one more ace to the list of aces who...
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  12. likespacegandalf reblogged this from myfaceismogadon and added:
    …I was actually in the middle of sending you an ask note about this to explain, having seen your response to...
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  14. myfaceismogadon reblogged this from likespacegandalf and added:
    I guess the irony that you’ve removed every single comment that was actually about this man’s story and AGAIN...
  15. floorclaudiuscaroline reblogged this from sanaa-tamir and added:
    Yeah, as an asexual person, the OP was incredibly offensive. Erasure can be (and often is) a form of oppression, but,...
  16. wespecializeinhomosexualhairdos reblogged this from subluxate and added:
    are you fucking kidding me?
  17. mentalscribble reblogged this from writingfromfactorx and added:
    As promised privately, I’m reblogging this for the commentary directly above mine. I completely misread the comment and...
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  19. ace-azaelia reblogged this from kazaera and added:
    I… wasn’t part of this because I wasn’t on tumblr while it went down, but I’m not sure I would have been had I not...
  20. pomme-poire-peche reblogged this from likespacegandalf and added:
    Oh, for the love of Pete. *headdesk* That makes me so goddamn angry. I called out the OP because their OP was...
  21. likespacegandalf reblogged this from kazaera and added:
    what’s happening. Dear all aces...allies: please don’t go
  22. trnsylvanian reblogged this from bb-goose and added:
    Yes, seriously. This had fuck all to do with gender politics. It’s about a person. One person. The personal is not...
  23. likespacegandalf reblogged this from kendallquilts and added:
    The thing here isn’t that the original poster was merely asking a question. They were making a statement (that asexuals...
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  25. kendallquilts reblogged this from mentalscribble and added:
    This person was just asking a question about people they felt were left out of a part of history, and every responder to...
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  30. pomme-poire-peche reblogged this from indigofer and added:
    Can I also say that it’s particularly touchy, not to say galling, to talk about “erasure” in this context because the...
  31. freelovefuture reblogged this from feministhistorian and added:
    this is so obviously a troll. like seriously.
  32. feministhistorian reblogged this from and added:
    OP, what the ever loving fuck? Asexuals were not targeted by the Nazis. They did target LGBT folks and did kill LGBT...
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  36. pomme-poire-peche reblogged this from indigofer and added:
    Not everything that fails to mention asexuals and demisexuals, or any identity that at other times gets erased, is about...
  37. sidneyia reblogged this from mentalscribble and added:
    *TW for Holocaust discussion, mention of rape, asexual erasure*...Actually, asexuals have...