Homosexuals have had a long and tedious history. For thousands of years they have been discriminated against and punished for their sexual orientation. Then in the mid 1900's, they finally decided to start standing up for the right to have their own life style, and their own choices. Their efforts have come along way, but they will still have a lot of hard times coming.
             Discrimination against homosexuals began way before most people may realize. The first law against homosexual acts was in Great Britain, in 1533, which made homosexual intercourse a capital offence punishable by death ("Gay Rights"). When Adolf Hitler took power he extended the law to include homosexual kissing, embracing, and even having homosexual fantasies. An estimated 25,000 people were convicted under this law in two years alone. They were sent to prisons and later concentration camps. Their sentence also included sterilization, most commonly in the form of castration. Later on, Hitler extended the penalty to death. In the concentration camps Hitler symbolized "regular criminals" with a green triangle, Jews with an overlapping Star of David triangle, gays wore pink triangles, lesbians black triangles and the lowest form of prisoners, gay Jews, wore overlapping yellow and pink triangles. The worst part for these imprisoned gays was that when concentration camps were demolished, and prisoners were set free, homosexuals stayed prisoners because the German laws stayed in effect until 1969, 24 years after the other prisoners were set free. ("Symbols...")
             Incidentally enough though, lesbians were not included in German law, but were arrested for "anti-social behavior", which could include lesbianism, feminism, prostitution or any women that didn't conform to the ideal Nazi feminine image, which was having the women cook, clean, do kitchen work, raise children, and obey their husband. ("Symbols...").
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