If tolerance for difference is one of the lessons humanity is supposed to have learned from the Nazi era, the contemporary treatment of homosexuals around the world demonstrates that the lesson has not yet been learned.
87 countries currently maintain laws that prohibit or regulate sexual activity between consenting adults of the same sex. These laws are extremely broad in their scope and lend themselves to ideological interpretations which often serve as a pretext for the persecution of homosexuals.
Clearly, in different places throughout our contemporary world, much of the same discrimination and even some of the same crimes that occurred under the Nazi regime are currently being perpetrated against homosexual people.
The past is not past. History is repeating itself virtually every day. This is because the lessons of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals have not yet been taught or learned. We believe that one of the best ways to commemorate and historically legitimize those who were murdered by the Nazis is to prevent such atrocities from occurring again throughout the world.
The pink triangle was pinned on us by the Nazi's. Matt and Andrej ask that we not forget the reason we still wear the pink triangle. In memory of our brothers, murdered by the Nazi's while wearing a pink triangle.
I want to thank Matt and Andrej where I obtained much of this.
I loved their page titled: 8 Memorials to the Gay Holocaust
Other resources:
The book: The Pink Swastika
The documentary: Paragraph 175
It speaks with the 6 remaining gay holocaust survivors.
That wasn't a typo, 6 remaining gay holocaust survivors in the world!
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I've been accepted as a fellow to a summer institute on the Holocaust, and I'm already in communication with the director about seeing if a day can be devoted to gay victims (and survivors). We tend to think of the Holocaust as a primarily Jewish event without taking into account the GLBTQ, gypsy, handicapped and mentally ill victims.
I'll report back about this in July.
The Holocaust wasn't a Jewish event, it was a HUMAN event....
I really didn't want to put Gay Holocaust in the title but I did so because of the double injustice to gays.
What happened to gays in the holocaust really really realllllllyyyyy pisses me off.
Everyone else received freedom and reparation$ yet the gays were sent to prison.
This is a very sad story.
The injustice of the holocaust was terrible in itself. To imagine someone living through that only to be placed in prison is a crying shame.
It wasn't any different for the gays. They were not really amancipated. The keys to the cell were passed to others.
Not only that, the Germans forbidding the memorial signs (gay holocaust memorials) for many years!
I think it was 8-10 years of fighting before the first Homosexual Holocaust Memorial sign was placed.
I realize the holocaust was about all non-aryans.
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