Queerophobia plays a central role in right-wing election campaigns, including for the AfD. And yet homosexuality and right-wing extremism are not mutually exclusive. Cultural anthropologist Patrick Wielowiejski spent two years ethnographically following a group of gay members of the AfD. In his article, he sheds light on how essentialism is prioritised over emancipation and what lies behind the integration of homosexual people into the extreme right.