Röhm suggested that the line between homosocial and homosexual, however, was potentially fluid. The Progress Pride flag representing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has been redesigned to be more inclusive, but the change has alienated some LGBT advocates, who slammed it as hideous and confusing. Such all-male organizations of warrior-comrades were supposed to be united under the banner of discipline and order against the threatening “wave” of the bourgeoisie, women, Jews, socialists, Bolsheviks, all of whom represented weakness, chaos, and disorder-in short, the Weimar Republic. A First World War veteran, Rohm “attached paramount importance to the values of militarized masculinity.” This aligned with Nazi views of the homosocial Männerbund. The policy, announced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, repeals his predecessor Mike Pompeo's effective ban on Pride flags or others from flying at U.S. (Earlier, the Social Democrats, one of the few parties to campaign for the repeal of Paragraph 175, showed itself willing to gay-bait Röhm.)Īs Eleanor Hancock explains, Röhm, his face scarred from war wounds, stressed a hyper-masculinity to counteract contemporary views of homosexuality as feminine. That was always wishful thinking, but became especially moot after 1934’s “Night of the Long Knives,” when Röhm and others were massacred as Hitler consolidated his power. German concentration camp prisoner markings The pink triangle was used by the Nazis in concentration camps to identify. The recent courtroom victories by the LGBT community (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) has produced a whole collection of interesting and colorful flags. This made some German homosexuals think he might ultimately tone down the Nazi stance. Röhm opposed his party’s stand on Paragraph 175 of the German penal code, which made male homosexual acts illegal. A yellow Star of David under a superimposed Pink Triangle represented Gay Jewish prisoners- by the social hierarchy, the. If Röhm’s masculinity reassured some Nazis, it threatened others.