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175er:
Or: 175-er : dialectical term of reference, in the gay community, for a male homosexual , based on Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code of the 1930s and 1940s condemning homosexuality . Homosexual prisoners in Nazi concentration camp were identified by symbols or numbers and in the first years of the camps a large 175 was painted on-the-back of homosexualS; it was later replaced with a pink-triangle which has also been revived as a contemporary symbol of homosexuality .See Also: Hundred-And-Seventy-Fiver
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