Lbian Kiss at Berl Gay Holot Memorial Draws Prott

Contents:

• TEL AVIV UNVEILS FIRST MEMORIAL TO GAY HOLOT VICTIMS
• TEL AVIV UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO GAY HOLOT VICTIMS
• GAY HOLOT MEMORIAL BERL
• GERMANY UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO GAY VICTIMS OF HOLOT
• TEL AVIV UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO GAY HOLOT VICTIMS

TEL AVIV UNVEILS FIRST MEMORIAL TO GAY HOLOT VICTIMS

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. Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy. 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.

More than 50, 000 men were nvicted of the “offense” of homosexualy, and between 5, 000 and 15, 000 were sent to ncentratn mps. After World War II, the homosexual victims of Nazi Germany were not officially regnized.

On the si of the memorial, visors n look through a small wdow where a vio showg gay upl kissg is displayed on a loop. Image source, AFPImage ptn, People lay flowers at the memorial to the thoands of gay people killed by the Nazis durg WW2Tel Aviv has bee the first Israeli cy to unveil a memorial honour of gay and lbian victims of the Nazi Holot. The monument the centre of the cy is signed around a pk triangle - the symbol gay prisoners were forced to wear the ncentratn mps.

TEL AVIV UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO GAY HOLOT VICTIMS

"In addn to the extermatn of Europe's Jews, the Nazis mted many atroci, an attempt to stroy anyone who was nsired different, " said Tel Aviv Mayor Ron source, APImage ptn, The monument is the form of a pk triangle - a symbol that gay prisoners were forced to wear"This monument remds all how important is for to rpect every human beg, " he monument, unveiled on Friday, will stand outsi the Municipal LGBT Communy Centre Tel Aviv's Meir Park (Gan Meir) ambassador Andreas Michaelis said: "It is important that we put up monuments and name streets, orr to remember thgs that happened the past. "The Nazis brand homosexualy an aberratn threateng their perceptn of Germans as the master race, and the Gtapo kept a special register of around 100, 000 gay people. Thoands were sent to Nazi ncentratn mps the 1930s and Aviv has a vibrant gay scene and hosts an annual gay pri on this story.

Before Feifer’s project, there was also Mark Alman’s “Stelen (Columns)” (2012), which culls pictur om var gay datg s of 100 (admtedly hot) men posg at the Holot Memorial Berl. TEL AVIV — Israel’s cultural and fancial pal has unveiled a memorial honorg gays and lbians persecuted by the Nazis durg World War II. It shows a pk triangle — the symbol gays were forced to wear ncentratn mps.

GAY HOLOT MEMORIAL BERL

The landmark jos siar memorials Amsterdam, Berl, San Francis and Sydney dited to gay victims of the Holot. A man reads the text om a new monument honorg gays and lbians persecuted by the Nazis, Tel Aviv on Friday (photo cred: AP/Od Balilty). “As a smopolan cy and an ternatnal gay center, Tel Aviv will offer a memorial se that is universal s sence.

Tel Aviv has a vibrant gay scene and is a top ternatnal statn for gay tourists. Image source, AFPImage ptn, The Nazi programme officially end 1941 but rried on vertly until the end of the warA glass monument has been publicly opened Berl to 300, 000 victims of the Nazis wh mental and physil disabili or chronic 24m-long (80ft) blue, glass wall is ont of the Berl Philharmonie buildg, where the office hog the Nazi "thanasia" programme once is the fourth monument the German pal to victims of the the past 10 years, memorials have been erected to Jewish, Roma (Gypsy) and gay Adolf Hler's ial programme, the Nazis killed more than 200, 000 people om early 1940 to Augt 1941, focg on patients mental health clics and re hom. A plan to exchange an image of kissg men wh kissg women at a gay Holot memorial Berl is drawg prott om some scholars.

Erected May 2008, the memorial to the timated 5, 000 to 15, 000 homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis is a gray ncrete slab signed by Ingar Dragset and Michael Elmgree and featur a wdow through which viewers n see a loopg vio, currently of two men an eternal kiss. The origal plans clud changg the sex of the embracg uple the vio every two years, but Alexanr Zn and other Holot experts have protted via a letter to German culture mister Michael Nmann and gay Berl mayor Kls Wowere, claimg the proposed lbian kiss vio would distort history.

GERMANY UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO GAY VICTIMS OF HOLOT

Nmann fends the planned vio, set to but May 2010, sayg a statement, "The optn of g a lbian film motif the memorial is no way meant to put on the same level the persecutn of homosexual men and women unr the Nazi regime. Rearch shows that the persecutn of lbian women by the Nazi regime was not parable to that of homosexual men.

The groups clud Pol, Soviets, Roma, polil prisoners, disabled people, crimals, Jehovah’s Wns and those seen as homosexuals.

As wh the other groups, gay men (and to some extent lbians) were perceived as posg a threat to the “German people”.

TEL AVIV UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO GAY HOLOT VICTIMS

But to this day, many of the gay victims receive ltle attentn. Due to limed rearch fundg, the high ath rate of gay men the mps, and the stigma attached to homosexualy, the victims are often fotten by the world.

This clud more than 100 gay and lbian bars and f, songs and films, and Magn Hirschfeld’s Instut für Sexualwissenschaft (the Instute for Sexual Science), which ntaed thoands of books and journals on sexualy and genr.