Christopher Park Monuments - Gay Liberatn : NYC Parks

Contents:

• “BY THE TIME OF HAD 50 TO 60 GAY GROUPS THE UNTRY. A YEAR LATER...1500.”
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• MEMORIAL TO GAY VICTIMS OF HOLOT VANDALIZED BERL
• LGBT HERAGE S AND GAY MONUMENTS EUROPE
• TEL AVIV UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO GAY HOLOT VICTIMS
• LOVE AND ATH: THE LEGACY OF CONGRSNAL CEMETERY’S ‘GAY CORNER’
• REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS
• BEVERLY GAY BRONSTON OBUARY

“BY THE TIME OF HAD 50 TO 60 GAY GROUPS THE UNTRY. A YEAR LATER...1500.”

Once ed to intify gay men Nazi ncentratn mps, the pk triangle has been reclaimed as a symbol of LGBTQ pri, rilience, and ristance.

Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Unr NazismBerl, GermanyThoands of gay men were imprisoned ncentratn mps Nazi Germany, where many died of disease, starvatn, torture, and targeted killgs. Travel tip: Don’t fet a trip to the Schwul Mm (Gay Mm) for an extensive look at Berl’s queer Legacy WalkChigo, Illois Stretchg half a e across the North Halsted rridor, the Legacy Walk is an outdoor history mm showsg signifint moments LGBTQ history.

Installed 2001 near the Sydney Jewish Mm, the pk-enameled exterr of the Gay and Lbian Holot Memorial is etched wh imag of victims om the Sachsenhsen Concentratn Camp Germany. ” Travel tip: In Febary and March, honor past and prent activists at the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras—the largt LGBTQ celebratn the Southern Triangle MonumentSg, SpaSg, a small astal town southwt of Barcelona, is well known for s betiful beach, world-class rtrants, and notable mms.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

The town has long been home to a flourishg LGBTQ muny, but 1996, the policg of beach at night, specifilly targetg gay men, sparked public outcry and subsequent rts. To mark the 10th anniversary, the bright, verted Pk Triangle Monument—the first LGBTQ monument Spa—was erected 2006 wh the scriptn: “Sg agast homophobia—Never aga.

HomomonumentAmsterdam, NetherlandsUnveiled 1987 and nsired the first public monument honorg the LGBTQ muny, the Homomonument is posed of three grane triangl loted the heart of Amsterdam. Jt across the street om the Memorial to the Murred Jews of Europe, this stere grey cuboid that ss a quiet rner of Berl’s Tiergarten was missned to pay tribute to the long-ignored thoands of homosexual dividuals who were imprisoned, tortured, and murred the Holot.

They harassed Germany’s gay muni and arrted thoands of gay men unr Paragraph 175, the statute of the German crimal that banned sexual relatns between men. View all monuments NYC Parks, as well as temporary public art stallatns on our NYC Public Art Map and LiberatnHistoryThis sculpture by Gee Segal (1924–2000) honors the gay rights movement and memorat the events at the Stonewall Inn oppose this park that gave rise to the movement. In 1966, closed for renovatns, and reopened the followg year as a private club known as Stonewall Inn - a bar and dance hall which, like numero lol tablishments, tered to the homosexual muny of Greenwich Village.

MEMORIAL TO GAY VICTIMS OF HOLOT VANDALIZED BERL

Word of the raid and the ristance to soon spread, and the next day hundreds gathered to prott the crackdown and advote the legalizatn of gay bars.

Further protts epted early July, and on July 27, a group of activists anized the first gay and lbian march, om Washgton Square to Stonewall. A later, Peter Putnam (1927–1987), a wealthy arts patron om Louisiana and tstee of the Mildred Andrews Fund, missned the Gay Liberatn monument. Though Segal was not the first artist approached, he accepted the missn, which stipulated only that the work “had to be lovg and rg, and show the affectn that is the hallmark of gay people...

The ial opposn and ranr which had greeted the project had subsid; the advent of AIDS, which had vastated the gay muny particular, add another poignant dimensn to the monument and s mute figur’ impact. Click map for directnsClick image for larger viewGay Liberatn DetailsLotn: Adjog Sheridan Square, Christopher, Grove and Wt 4th StreetsSculptor: Gee SegalArchect: Philip N. Wslow, ASLADcriptn: Group of four figur (two seated, two standg), two World's Fair-style bench, plaqueMaterials: Figur--bronze (whe lacquer); bench--steel (black pat)Dimensns: Group H: 5'11" W: 16' D: 7'6"; Each bench L: 16'; Plaque H: 7 5/8" W: 7 5/8"Cast: 1980Dedited: June 23, 1992Foundry: Johnson Atelier, Haton Township, NJDonor: Mildred Andrews FundInscriptn: GAY LIBERATION / BY / GEORGE SEGAL / BRONZE CAST -- 1980 / DEDICATED -- 1992 /---/ GIFT OF THE MILDRED ANDREWS FUND / TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK /Please note, the NAME field clus a primary signatn as well as alternate namgsoften mon or popular age.

LGBT HERAGE S AND GAY MONUMENTS EUROPE

It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power. However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men.

The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”). In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach. Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works.

In a further latn, the Nazis ed new laws and police practic to arrt and ta whout trial a limed number of gay men begng late 1933 and early 1934. Three events the years 1934–1936 radilized the Nazi regime’s mpaign agast homosexualy and led to more systematic opprsn of gay men. Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung).

TEL AVIV UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO GAY HOLOT VICTIMS

The notorly homophobic Himmler saw both homosexualy and abortn as threats to the German birth rate and th to the fate of the German people.

Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175.

LOVE AND ATH: THE LEGACY OF CONGRSNAL CEMETERY’S ‘GAY CORNER’

The efforts of scholars and German gay rights anizatns have helped to brg the persecutn of gay men unr the Nazis to the public eye. In the 1990s, the German ernment acknowledged “persecuted homosexuals” (“verfolgten Homosexuellen”) as victims of the Nazi regime.

For the first time, gay men who had suffered at the hands of the Nazis beme eligible for moary pensatn om the German ernment for jtic perpetrated agast them. A few years later, May 2008, the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Nazism (Denkmal für die im Natnalsozialism verfolgten Homosexuellen) was unveiled nearby Tiergarten park central Berl.

From cemeteri refg headston that acknowledge gay marriage to practic of adnamg transgenr people at their funerals, there is still much work to be done to make athre and memorializatn clive for everyone. In the late 1980s, untri around the world began to build monuments honorg the thoands of gay people persecuted by the Nazi party, who were seen as a threat to the survival of the “Aryan” race. Loted along the Keizersgracht Canal, the sign featur three pk grane triangl that form a larger triangle—the symbol gay people were forced to wear ncentratn mps.

REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS

The ways which the sign elements hold public space for queer life and and reclaim the pk triangle as a sign of pri has fluenced many other memorials, such as the Gay and Lbian Holot Memorials Sydney, Atralia, and Tel Aviv, Israel.

Reflectg this spir of reclamatn, Homomonument has bee the se of celebratns hosted by lol gay and lbian associatns throughout the year. Dedited 2016, the se memorat the uprisg June 1969, where patrons and employe of the Stonewall Inn fought agast a police raid, a scenar that was route at gay bars at the time. Wh hundreds of thoands of people makg panels and tens of thoands of volunteers helpg to display over the s, the quilt is nsired the largt muny arts project history and powerfully reamed the AIDS panmic as a natnal tragedy rather than jt a “gay” disease.

BEVERLY GAY BRONSTON OBUARY

Memorial por la Diversidad Chile is a memorial loted Santiago’s General Cemetery dited to honorg those killed by homophobic vlence Chile.