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Rotha Lintorn-Orman, WW1 ambulance driver, lesbian, and founder of the British fascists - history is strange. Photo from 1916 (lemmy.world)

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[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Ernst Rohm (an out gay man) was in the previous iteration right up until he was no longer useful to the state/party apparatus.

Hell, Mussolini was originally a Communist who, I guess, decided he was tired of working on making a better world and decided to settle for immediately making a worse one because at least he'd be in charge of part of it.