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Originally Posted by Ian
Jim, some interesting history and told with flashes of humour.
I think you may be incorrect in your statement that the National Socialist League did no public actions. There was some controversy in the late 1970s about them joining a big city gay pride parade in California. Some of the Gay establishment supported the idea of no censorship. I'm not sure if the NSL homo-nazi outfit actually joined the public parade.
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Yes, I remember this episode: ultimately, they did not join the parade. They issued a statement that said that they never intended to actually march; rather, they wanted to establish their
right to march. They also held a public showing of the NS film classic
Triumph of the Will which was well attended, and on one occasion they leafleted a homosexual neighborhood with “tenants’ rights” leaflets. But on the whole, their private sexual agenda took precedence over any public political activity.
I had mixed feelings about the NSL. On one hand, they were a big embarrassment to the Movement. Yet, on the other hand, they performed a useful function, in that they gave pro-NS homosexuals a group to join, so that they wouldn’t try to sneak into the NSWPP by concealing their sexual identity.