Monday, March 30, 2015

A Crystal Rainbow Mobile Makes A Great Gift

By Leslie Ball


Just like birthdays, anniversaries, or a graduation; it is a loving tradition and always appropriate to bring a gift for a coming-out party. This can be a really big step for any man or woman when they decide it is time to come forward to friends and family and reveal that they are gay. Give your loved one a strong show of support by gifting them with a crystal rainbow mobile.

Such a beautiful gift makes a delightful home accent for anyone. However, the symbolism of rainbows has special significance to GBLT communities. Not everyone realizes just how many homosexuals were sent to Nazi death camps during World War II.

Most are familiar with the Star of David which those of the Jewish race were forced to wear during the Nazi occupation. However, not everyone is familiar with the upside down pink triangle gay men, as well as male officers of the Catholic church, were forced to wear. Even some within the gay community are not aware that Catholic nuns, as well as lesbians, were forced to wear the upside-down black triangle.

The followers of the Nazi perspective believed homosexuality was an abomination, much like modern fundamentalists do. We do not see every religious person going to extremes, but most notably Christianity and Islam do not condone the gay community. This point is being made repeatedly in the controversy surrounding gay marriage.

The Nazi Party took their perspective of homosexuality being deviant to the next level when it came to their treatment of the Catholic Clergy. Simply taking an oath of celibacy was regarded as a rejection of any racial purity they may have possessed. Deviating from their planned society in any way resulted in being herded in with the Jews, and was a death sentence for these unfortunate souls.

The Nazi party did not necessarily point fingers at Christianity, or even religion in general. It was the requirement of the Catholics to take an oath of celibacy which made them obsolete in Nazi society. Men and women of what they called racial purity were basically required to have children, and an oath of celibacy was regarded as a rejection of the wishes of their leader as well as the norms of their society.

They circulated extensive paperwork to the community explaining how the Jewish race had out-bred the Aryan race, and this could not be tolerated by them or any other inferior race. People of Aryan blood were expected to have children. The best genetics for women to breed with during this time were, conveniently, high-ranking soldiers of the Nazi Armed Forces.

For years gay men and women have worn these upside-down pink and black triangles as a show of pride and solidarity with those who suffered and died in this atrocity. However, during the Nineties a change began to take place. Rather than wearing the symbol assigned by the Hitler minions, which was considered by many as focusing on a negative event in history, they began to wear the symbol of an upside-down triangle with the colors of the rainbow as a way to bring a positive message while still acknowledging history.




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