Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, a Queer History podcast. My name is Eli. I'm Amish.

I'm Irene. Twice a month, we talk to you about a queer history topic from around the world

and throughout time. Today we're going to talk to you about Gudd Beck, the last known living

gay survivor of the Holocaust. So there are, of course, some pretty hefty content warnings for this episode.

The biggest one is just general anti-Semitism throughout,

and there's mentions of wartime atrocities such as concentration camps, mob violence, executions,

forced labor, torture, and bombings.

There's also a brief recount of sex between a minor and an adult,

and there's generally quite a bit of sexual content. This is obviously going to be one of the

heavier episodes that we ever do. If you need to, as always, please skip this episode, but I'd

like to encourage you to listen to it if you can. I also wanted to note that this episode isn't

a history of how queer people generally were treated by the Nazis. Although Godbeck was a gay

man and that's a very important part of his story, the discrimination that he faced was primarily

because he was Jewish. And so his story is largely different than people who were primarily

discriminated against because they were gay.

And so I didn't want to shortchange that by just shoving that into an introductory section for this episode.

And I think it would be better if we came back and did its own episode and did it justice at some point.

I also lastly wanted to note that the only source that I could really find on his life was his

own autobiography.

So this is going to be very reliable.

Yes.

Everything else, whether it was like articles about him or documentaries or whatever,

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