Sentence:  Much of lesbian/gay history claims that the Nazis pursued a campaign against homosexual men, similar to the mass murder of Jews, which leadSIC to a <WSD>Homocaust</WSD>, the systematic extermination of homosexual men. In an article published in 2002, Jim Steakley, an American activist and historian, looks back self-critically at how he and others contributed to the myth of a <WSD>Homocaust</WSD> in the early 1970s (Steakly 2002: 55, also Jellonek and Lautmann 2002: 12). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The persecution of homosexuals which occurred in Nazi Germany, when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.