HOMO-FASCISM AFTER HITLER History never repeats itself, man
always does. Voltaire (In Cecil Genese, The Holocaust: Who Are
The Guilty?) One of the symbols with which homosexuals in the
United States have chosen to represent their movement is the
phoenix, a mythical bird that was said to burn itself on a
funeral pyre every five hundred years and then rise from the
ashes more majestic than before (Alyson Almanac:56). A more apt
symbol for the historic cycle of homo-fascism and resulting
social chaos would be hard to find. From the ashes of Nazi
Germany, the homo-fascist phoenix has arisen again this time in
the United States. The Fascist Roots of the American Gay
Movement The first gay rights organization in the United States
was an American chapter of the German-based Society for Human
Rights (SHR). The German SHR, formed in 1919 by Thule Society
member Hans Kahnert, was a militant organization led by Butch
homosexuals. Many of the early Nazis, including SA leader Ernst
Roehm, were also SHR members. The Americ