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So he died when I was like nine, and Franz died a few months later. We weren’t close, I was a kid, never really thought of him again. Fast forward about ten years later, I come out to my grandma as gay, and she goes “My brother Gusti was gay, you know?” And I’m like OF COURSE!! IT MAKES SENSE!! But the interesting part isn’t that he was gay. The interesting part is how this badass motherfucker got himself a boyfriend. (2/?)
So the year is 1933 and the Nazis just started hunting down gay people. Dear uncle Gusti is 18, a flaming homosexual, and has a pen pal in Hamburg he found through an illegal gay magazine. His name’s Friedrich, he’s about the same age, and actively gay. A very dangerous thing to be in Hitler’s Germany, obviously. So when Friedrich writes what he knows will be his last letter, explaining how he is about to be found out, uncle Gusti makes his decision. (4/?)
He gets up the same night the letter arrives, takes the family car and crosses the border illegally, DRIVING THROUGH WHOLE FUCKING NAZI GERMANY to pick up his man. He brings him back to his family… And they’re chill with it!!! They fake him a swiss passport, introduce him as a german cousin who didn’t like the political climate there, and let him move in with them. He takes the name Franz for safety reason. (5/?)
Him and Gusti start dating shortly after, and their relationship becomes a family secret. They opened a b&b together in 1946 and eventually it was given over to my grandma. I’ve never been prouder of my family (6/6)
Thank you for sharing this. This is beautiful.
So he died when I was like nine, and Franz died a few months later. We weren’t close, I was a kid, never really thought of him again. Fast forward about ten years later, I come out to my grandma as gay, and she goes “My brother Gusti was gay, you know?” And I’m like OF COURSE!! IT MAKES SENSE!! But the interesting part isn’t that he was gay. The interesting part is how this badass motherfucker got himself a boyfriend. (2/?)
So the year is 1933 and the Nazis just started hunting down gay people. Dear uncle Gusti is 18, a flaming homosexual, and has a pen pal in Hamburg he found through an illegal gay magazine. His name’s Friedrich, he’s about the same age, and actively gay. A very dangerous thing to be in Hitler’s Germany, obviously. So when Friedrich writes what he knows will be his last letter, explaining how he is about to be found out, uncle Gusti makes his decision. (4/?)
He gets up the same night the letter arrives, takes the family car and crosses the border illegally, DRIVING THROUGH WHOLE FUCKING NAZI GERMANY to pick up his man. He brings him back to his family… And they’re chill with it!!! They fake him a swiss passport, introduce him as a german cousin who didn’t like the political climate there, and let him move in with them. He takes the name Franz for safety reason. (5/?)
Him and Gusti start dating shortly after, and their relationship becomes a family secret. They opened a b&b together in 1946 and eventually it was given over to my grandma. I’ve never been prouder of my family (6/6)
Thank you for sharing this. This is beautiful.
