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The Nazis came for us too. ‘Bent’ recalls the horror of the queer Holocaust.
Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.This week commemorated the fallen victims of the Holocaust with Holocaust Memorial Day. While pop culture tends to shorthand the Holocaust as a purging of Jewish people from Europe, the Nazis didn’t stop there: Poles, communists, the handicapped and political prisoners were targeted as well, along with LGBTQ people.Bent the 1997 film by Sean Mathias, retells the story of the persecution of gay men during the Holocaust era.