: After the war, LGBTQ+ victims were often excluded from memorials. In 2017, Germany finally voted to pardon and compensate survivors who had been imprisoned under "Paragraph 175," a law that criminalized male homosexual acts and remained in some form until 1994. Contemporary Dangers

: From 1937 to 1993, the FBI maintained a massive file on "sex deviates," using it to target gay rights groups and harass individuals in the press and government.

While legal progress has been made in many regions, the community faces modern, often violent, "shocks":

: Some doctors, like Austrian endocrinologist Eugen Steinach, believed gay men simply lacked "masculine" hormones and performed testicle transplantations —castrating gay men and replacing their organs with those of "heterosexual" donors.

Before the 1970s, homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder. To "fix" what they deemed deviancy, psychiatrists used methods that are now considered torture:

For decades, the stories of gay people were systematically wiped from public record or suppressed by governments:

: Practices like lobotomies and psychoanalysis were common until 1973, when homosexuality was finally removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Institutional Erasure

: In Sydney, Australia, attackers have used dating apps to lure gay teenagers into ambushes, filming themselves assaulting the victims.