Pierre Seel
From QueerBio.com
Country
France
Birth - Death
1923 - 2005
Occupation
Activist
Description
Gay Holocaust survivor and the only French person to have testified openly about his experience of deportation during World War II due to his homosexuality. Narrates the story in the book 'I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror' (1995), describing how he and other suspected homosexuals were beaten, had their fingernails pulled out and were raped with broken rulers. In 1982, when the bishop of Strasbourg, France, denounced homosexuality as a sickness, he decided to come forward and tell his story.
