The Pink Triangle

Author : Heinz Heger
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781642598605

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The Men With the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger Pdf

For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed “undesirable,” suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi regime. Of the few who survived the concentration camps, even fewer ever came forward to tell their stories. This heart wrenchingly vivid account of one man's arrest and imprisonment by the Nazis for the crime of homosexuality, now with a new preface by Sarah Schulman, remains an essential contribution to gay history and our understanding of historical fascism, as well as a remarkable and complex story of survival and identity.

Author : Ken Setterington
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 13-04-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781926920979

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Branded by the Pink Triangle by Ken Setterington Pdf

Before the rise of the Nazi party, Germany, especially Berlin, was one of the most tolerant places for homosexuals in the world. Activists, including Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein, campaigned openly for the rights of gay men and women, and tried to repeal the old existing law against homosexuality. But all that would change when the Nazis came to power and existence for gay people turned into one of fear. Raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews and any other groups the Nazis wanted to suppress. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of the persecution of homosexuals, a persecution that would continue for many years after the war. A mix of historical research, first person accounts, and individual stories bring this time to life for readers. Stories of bravery in the face of inhuman cruelty, friendship found in the depths of despair in the camps, and the perseverance of the human spirit will both educate and inspire.

Author : William Jake Newsome
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501765506

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Pink Triangle Legacies by William Jake Newsome Pdf

Pink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and community. W. Jake Newsome provides an overview of the Nazis' targeted violence against LGBTQ+ people and details queer survivors' fraught and ongoing fight for the acknowledgement, compensation, and memorialization of LGBTQ+ victims. Within this context, a new generation of queer activists has used the pink triangle—a reminder of Germany's fascist past—as the visual marker of gay liberation, seeking to end queer people's status as second-class citizens by asserting their right to express their identity openly. The reclamation of the pink triangle occurred first in West Germany, but soon activists in the United States adopted this chapter from German history as their own. As gay activists on opposite sides of the Atlantic grafted pink triangle memories onto new contexts, they connected two national communities and helped form the basis of a shared gay history, indeed a new gay identity, that transcended national borders. Pink Triangle Legacies illustrates the dangerous consequences of historical silencing and how the incorporation of hidden histories into the mainstream understanding of the past can contribute to a more inclusive experience of belonging in the present. There can be no justice without acknowledging and remembering injustice. As Newsome demonstrates, if a marginalized community seeks a history that liberates them from the confines of silence, they must often write it themselves.

Author : Richard Plant
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429936932

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The Pink Triangle by Richard Plant Pdf

This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as directed by Himmler and his SS--persecution that resulted in tens of thousands of arrests and thousands of deaths. In this Nazi crusade, homosexual prisoners were confined to death camps where, forced to wear pink triangles, they constituted the lowest rung in the camp hierarchy. The horror of camp life is described through diaries, previously untranslated documents, and interviews with and letters from survivors, revealing how the anti-homosexual campaign was conducted, the crackpot homophobic fantasies that fueled it, the men who made it possible, and those who were its victims, this chilling book sheds light on a corner of twentieth-century history that has been hidden in the shadows much too long.

Author : Darwin Porter,Danforth Prince
Publisher : Blood Moon Productions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1936003376

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Pink Triangle by Darwin Porter,Danforth Prince Pdf

One hot summer night in 1945, three young writers came together for the first time. Each member of this pink triangle - Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote - was on the dawn of fame. They remained competitively and defiantly provocative throughout their writing careers. Initially hailed by critics, each of them would later be attacked for their contributions to literature. From the night they met emerged betrayals that evolved into the most flamboyant rivalries in literary history, and which have only been revealed in this extraordinary book.

Author : Scott Eric Lively,Kevin Abrams
Publisher : Old Paths Publications, Incorporated
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Gays
ISBN : 0964760975

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The Pink Swastika by Scott Eric Lively,Kevin Abrams Pdf

In 1995, we published the 1st Edition of The Pink Swastika to counter historical revisionism by the homosexual political movement which had been attempting since the 1970s to fabricate a "Gay Holocaust" equivalent to that suffered by the Jews in Nazi Germany. Fifteen years have passed, but our research into this topic has never stopped.

Author : Pierre Seel
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780465023837

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I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual by Pierre Seel Pdf

On a fateful day in May 1941, in Nazi-occupied Strasbourg, seventeen-year- old Pierre Seel was summoned by the Gestapo. This was the beginning of his journey through the horrors of a concentration camp. For nearly forty years, Seel kept this secret in order to hide his homosexuality. Eventually he decided to speak out, bearing witness to an aspect of the Holocaust rarely seen. This edition, with a new foreword from gay-literature historian Gregory Woods, is an extraordinary firsthand account of the Nazi roundup and the deportation of homosexuals.

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : American essays
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039342931

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Pink Triangle and Yellow Star, and Other Essays (1976-1982) by Gore Vidal Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Escoffier
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788732338

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American Homo by Jeffrey Escoffier Pdf

A sweeping account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society In this provocative book, Jeffrey Escoffier tracks LGBT movements across the contested terrain of American political life, where they have endured the historical tension between the homoeroticism coursing through American culture and the virulent periodic outbreaks of homophobic populism. Escoffier explores how every new success enables a new disciplinary and normalizing form of domination; only the active exercise of democratic rights and participation in radical coalitions allows LGBT people to sustain the benefits of community and the freedom of sexual perversity.

Author : Martin Sherman
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : 0573640319

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Bent by Martin Sherman Pdf

This play dramatizes the plight of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. Singing, 2 acts, 11 scenes, 11 men, 4 interiors, 3 exteriors.

Author : Miranda Morris
Publisher : University of New South Wales
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Gay liberation movement
ISBN : 0868401358

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The Pink Triangle by Miranda Morris Pdf

The legislation of gay sex between consenting adults in Tasmania has been on the front pages constantly over the past two years as the debate shifts from the Tasmanian Government to the federal Government to the United Nations.

Author : Robert Beachy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307473134

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Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy Pdf

Winner of Randy Shilts Award In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts—the first gay journal, the first homosexual rights organization, the first Institute for Sexual Science, the first sex reassignment surgeries—exploring and educating themselves and the rest of the world about new ways of understanding the human condition. In this fascinating examination of how the uninhibited urban culture of Berlin helped create our categories of sexual orientation and gender identity, Robert Beachy guides readers through the past events and developments that continue to shape and influence our thinking about sex and gender to this day.

Author : Diane Yvonne Ghirardo
Publisher : Bay Press (WA)
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951P00135803R

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Out of Site by Diane Yvonne Ghirardo Pdf

This provocative collection of esays calls into question the ways in which the discipline of architecture engages a broad spectrum of social and political issues.[architecture][political][art][architecture]

Author : Avram Finkelstein
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520351332

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After Silence by Avram Finkelstein Pdf

Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words “Silence = Death.” The graphic and the slogan still resonate today, often used—and misused—to brand the entire movement. Cofounder of the collective Silence = Death and member of the art collective Gran Fury, Avram Finkelstein tells the story of how his work and other protest artwork associated with the early years of the pandemic were created. In writing about art and AIDS activism, the formation of collectives, and the political process, Finkelstein reveals a different side of the traditional HIV/AIDS history, told twenty-five years later, and offers a creative toolbox for those who want to learn how to save lives through activism and making art.

Author : Gayle E. Pitman
Publisher : American Psychological Association
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781433817878

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This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman Pdf

A wildly whimsical, validating, and exuberant reflection of the LGBTQ+ community, This Day in June welcomes kids to experience a pride celebration and share in a day when we are all united. Includes a Reading Guide full of facts about LGBTQ+ history and culture and a Note to Parents and Caregivers on how to talk to children about sexual orientation.