Pink triangle legacies : coming out in the shadow of the Holocaust / W. Jake Newsome
Introduction : "Beaten to Death, Silenced to Death" -- "They are Enemies of the State!" : The Fate of LGBTQ People in Nazi Germany -- "For Homosexuals, the Third Reich Hasn't Ended Yet" : Paragraph 175 and the Nazi Past in West Germany -- "The Only Acceptable...
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| Main Authors: | Newsome, W. Jake (Author) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Ithaca, ; London : Cornell University Press, 2022 |
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| Summary: | Introduction : "Beaten to Death, Silenced to Death" -- "They are Enemies of the State!" : The Fate of LGBTQ People in Nazi Germany -- "For Homosexuals, the Third Reich Hasn't Ended Yet" : Paragraph 175 and the Nazi Past in West Germany -- "The Only Acceptable Gay Liberation Logo" : The Reclamation of the Pink Triangle in West Germany -- "It's a Scar, But In Your Heart" : The Pink Triangle in American Gay Activism -- "Remembrances of Things Once Hidden" : Piecing Together the Pink Triangle Past on Stage and on Page -- "We Died There, Too" : Commemoration and the Construction of a Transatlantic Gay Identity -- Epilogue : "Remembering Must Also Have Consequences. "This book chronicles the seventy-five-year struggle for the acknowledgment and memorialization of the Nazis' LGBTQ victims. It simultaneously traces how LGBTQ people in Germany and the United States transformed the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge into an international symbol of queer identity and activism beginning in the 1970s"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 286 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781501765155 |
