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PRUSSIA GATE
Geese and Trauma
WILL ZOLL
APR 14, 2023
In Part I, we presented a brief history of gays throughout the ages; from Ancient Greece, Rome and even the legendary king of Prussia, Frederick the Great. Without question, gays and lesbians have been around for thousands of years, with each civilization developing their own customs and laws on the matter. Some gays, like Frederick the Great, occupied the highest echelons of power. What was certain, however, was that gay men and women were always regarded as men and women.
This all changed in 1806 when Prussia had its proverbial ass handed to them by Napoleon. It was a severe shock to the collective psyche of Prussia. Such a brutal defeat at the hands of the “sissy-boy” French was interpreted that Prussian society had descended into a bunch of “girlie-men”.
Just as Frederick the Great’s father had tried to “beat the gay” out of his son, Prussia’s leaders tried to do the same to their society as a whole.
Mandatory military service for every Prussian man was introduced. Irrespective of whether war was on the horizon, the Prussian men would be highly trained, drilled into military precision, and indoctrinated into the belief that they were superior men.
Compulsory schooling for children was also to be done as early as possible, and Prussian children were considered property of the state. Their role in society would now be clearly defined by a corps of teachers whose job was to indoctrinate these young minds to accept everything that was fed to them. We presented how this became the template of modern public education in
The Prussian Origins of Modern Education.
At the very bottom of Prussia’s societal pile sat the gay community. It was understood in no uncertain terms, that homosexuality had no role to play in the “universal homogeneous state” that Hegel and his army of Prussian philosophers had envisioned. It was a crime against the Prussian state to be gay.
With the State now in control of every aspect of its citizenry, what could possibly go wrong?
In the 1860s, while Prussia was busy annihilating Denmark, Austria-Hungary and eventually France, one man stood up to Prussian totalitarian rule: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs published his gay rights newsletter,
Uranus, declaring that homosexuals and lesbians were neither male nor female, but something in between. Ulrichs “third sex” theory gave birth to the idea that “other genders” existed. Ulrichs adopted a term from Plato’s
Symposium to describe them.
Ulrichs referred to himself, and other gays, as Uranians.
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