There are many people in society who openly accept and embrace friends and family members who are members of the gay community. Even with their acceptance of a variety of sexual identities, many straight people have a difficult time picking the right gift for homosexual friends or family members. An easy solution to the gifting dilemma means choosing just the right crystal rainbow mobile for their loved one.
These home accents are wonderful sun catchers when hung from a window in the breakfast nook. It can even be a baby shower gift for homosexual couples celebrating a child coming into their lives. This gift is not only beautiful, but it is historically significant to anyone in the GBLT community.
Certainly most everyone on the planet is familiar with the yellow Star of David that the Jews were forced to wear during the German Nazi era. Few history books talked about the pink and black up-side down triangles that thousands of men and women were also forced to wear. These symbols were even used to identify nuns, priests, bishops, and Catholic monks.
The Nazi perspective of homosexuality was pretty much on-par with many fundamental religious beliefs regarding same. While not everyone of faith is protesting at funerals carrying signs that bear slogans such as God Hates Fags, there is still no doubt that the religious community does not support homosexuality. This perspective is very strongly delineated in the current debate regarding gay marriage.
In short, homosexuality was regarded by Nazi sympathizers as deviating from normal behavior. Their perspectives went well beyond racial purity. They put to death countless men and women who would have been regarded racially pure because of their commitment to a lifestyle or behavior seen as deviant from a society they they were attempting to create.
The Catholic clerics were also regarded as deviating due to the oaths that they were expected to take and live up to in order to obtain their station within the Church. In short, making a commitment to maintain celibacy throughout life was viewed as a deviation. The Nazi community did not see this taking an oath as a commitment, but rather, as a rejection of what they considered normal sexual relations between men and women.
In fact, anyone who followed the concept of racial purity was expected to engage in sexual union and create as many children as they could. Men and women of their noted Aryan race were placed together by the State for the purpose of procreation. The women were chosen from within the community, and the men were most often high-ranking officers of the German Nazi army.
By wearing or displaying the upside-down pink or black triangle homosexuals could show pride in their past. It also opened a door for people to ask questions, which gave them an opportunity to educate the public about gay history. Even so, during the 1990s most gay men and women tossed in the old, negative symbolism and replaced it with a more positive message by embracing the rainbow as their symbol.
These home accents are wonderful sun catchers when hung from a window in the breakfast nook. It can even be a baby shower gift for homosexual couples celebrating a child coming into their lives. This gift is not only beautiful, but it is historically significant to anyone in the GBLT community.
Certainly most everyone on the planet is familiar with the yellow Star of David that the Jews were forced to wear during the German Nazi era. Few history books talked about the pink and black up-side down triangles that thousands of men and women were also forced to wear. These symbols were even used to identify nuns, priests, bishops, and Catholic monks.
The Nazi perspective of homosexuality was pretty much on-par with many fundamental religious beliefs regarding same. While not everyone of faith is protesting at funerals carrying signs that bear slogans such as God Hates Fags, there is still no doubt that the religious community does not support homosexuality. This perspective is very strongly delineated in the current debate regarding gay marriage.
In short, homosexuality was regarded by Nazi sympathizers as deviating from normal behavior. Their perspectives went well beyond racial purity. They put to death countless men and women who would have been regarded racially pure because of their commitment to a lifestyle or behavior seen as deviant from a society they they were attempting to create.
The Catholic clerics were also regarded as deviating due to the oaths that they were expected to take and live up to in order to obtain their station within the Church. In short, making a commitment to maintain celibacy throughout life was viewed as a deviation. The Nazi community did not see this taking an oath as a commitment, but rather, as a rejection of what they considered normal sexual relations between men and women.
In fact, anyone who followed the concept of racial purity was expected to engage in sexual union and create as many children as they could. Men and women of their noted Aryan race were placed together by the State for the purpose of procreation. The women were chosen from within the community, and the men were most often high-ranking officers of the German Nazi army.
By wearing or displaying the upside-down pink or black triangle homosexuals could show pride in their past. It also opened a door for people to ask questions, which gave them an opportunity to educate the public about gay history. Even so, during the 1990s most gay men and women tossed in the old, negative symbolism and replaced it with a more positive message by embracing the rainbow as their symbol.
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