I’m already getting choked up writing this.

The Nazi regime sent several groups to the gas chambers. Among them were people with disabilities, queers, and socialists. I am an openly gay man with a disability who has an active and public life in left-of-centre politics and the labour movement. In other words, I would have been gassed three times over in nazi Germany. That’s not to mention the governments and people today who would lock me up in an institution because of my disability or stone me because I love people of the same sex. Read the full story