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• The Nazi extermination of homosexuals
  This book, which is held in several UK academic libraries, outlines the treatment of gay men in Germany during the Third Reich. Much of the research is based on secondary sources which expose increasing societal homophobia, culminating in the imprisonment of gay men in concentration camps where they were forced to wear a pink triangle stitched to their clothing and undergo horrific, brutal treatment. The final two chapters focus on personal, pseudonymous testimony from men who survived, including an extract from a 1972 German book, published in English in 1980, entitled ‘The Men with the Pink Triangle’. By the 1980s, the pink triangle symbol had been reclaimed by LGBTQ+ activists.