Germany’s cabinet has approved a bill to overturn the convictions of thousands of gay men who were prosecuted after the second world war.
Gay men convicted between 1949 and 1969 who are still alive are expected to be given financial compensation for the suffering they endured under the legislation, known as Paragraph 175, which forbade sexual relations between men.
The law was first introduced in the 19th century, before being made stricter in 1935 during the Nazi era and subsequently kept on the statute books by West Germany, whose authorities avidly implemented it.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet of conservatives and Social Democrats approved the bill on Wednesday morning. It paves the way for compensation payments of €3,000 (£2,600) for each conviction, as well as €1,500 (£1,300) for every year started in prison by convicted men.
Rehabilitation will also apply to men convicted in communist East Germany, which had a milder version of Paragraph 175.
The bill sets out a collective fund of €500,000 a year paid to the Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation, which was named after a prominent German sex researcher and gay rights campaigner. The foundation is in the process of gathering the life stories of men who were convicted under the law.
As a gay person, i think straight people should pay a straight tax for oppressing gays in general.
Kevin Sanchez
1500€ for 1 year prison
>fair compensation
we haning jews billions and poor assfuckers only 1.5k for a whole year, thats absurd
Owen Scott
>€500,000 That's nothing compared to what we're paying for the """""""refugees""""""".
Caleb Stewart
as a straight person i hope your genetic defect isn't passed on through the miracles of science
Benjamin Butler
user stop looking my ass! it's so gay!
Henry Ross
Seems fair desu
Caleb Morgan
Since when can leaves talk
Hunter James
Gay is not an identity, it's a mental illness.
Brody Jackson
consider yourself gas'd fag
Aaron Barnes
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Nolan Price
truth
Jason Rodriguez
>some working class schmuck has to work to pay for this >seems fair
Faggots need to hang. There is no such thing as redpilled faggot.
Jonathan Parker
Well when you criminalize gay behavior it encourages gay people to delve into sham marriages where they will have biological kids that are more likely genetically to be gay.
Gabriel James
>Nazi-Era Law Convictions >prosecuted after the second world war. Alternate timeline OP?
Cameron Jones
They were prosecuted under laws created by the Nazis (well, strengthened).
Carter Mitchell
Gayness is based on natal conditions and hormones in the womb
Yes. The food and drugs women consume during pregnancy can have a dramatic effect on the conditions in their womb. Too much of one hormone can result in changing the sexuality of the child. So a "gay" gene is a misnomer, it's more like their brain is predisposed to be more sensitive to hormone imbalances
There is no gay gene, rather combinations of gene that can predispose people to become gay in the right conditions.
Christopher Ross
Gay people existed prior to modern food and drugs however.
