Abstract
The chapter places current secular homonationalism and its Othering of cultural-religious differences in a historical genealogy. It focuses on the Second German Empire, wherein the political crisis around the Kaiser and his alleged ‘homosexual’ circle of friends, was represented as a “male gender crisis”. Just as debates within the incipient gay movement, mostly fostered by the “masculinists”, the discourse focused on ‘normal masculinity’. I’ll address a religious contour of and possible Jewish inflection in the construction of homosexualities. Processes of racialization and queering Judaism did play a significant role for marking an internal differentiation between an “effeminate”, “degenerate” Jewish homosexuality, and an “ultra-virile”, “healthy”, Aryan inversion. The masculinists were the right-wing, anti-Semitic part of the German gay rights movement. Their key model of an ideal state was the homoerotic male-band. The chapter interconnects postcolonial-, gender- and studies in anti-Semitism.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Public Discourses About Homosexuality and Religion in Europe and Beyond |
Editors | Marco Derks, Mariecke van den Berg |
Place of Publication | Cham (Switzerland) |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Chapter | 6 |
Pages | 125-145 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-030-56326-4 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-030-56325-7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2020 |
Keywords
- Homosexuality, Judaism, Homonationalism
- MASCULINITY
- Homophobia
- Antisemitism