Pink triangle legacies : coming out in the shadow of the Holocaust / W. Jake Newsome.

"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 s...

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Main Author: Newsome, W. Jake, 1987- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
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520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
520 |a "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." -- Publisher's description 
505 0 |a Introduction: "Beaten to death, silenced to death" -- 1. "They are Enemies of the State!" : the fate of LGBTQ people in Nazi Germany -- 2. "For homosexuals, the Third Reich hasn't ended yet" : Paragraph 175 and the Nazi Past in West Germany -- 3. "The only acceptable gay liberation logo" : the reclamation of the pink triangle in West Germany -- 4. "It's a scar, but in your heart" : the pink triangle in American gay activism -- 5. "Remembrances of things once hidden" : piecing together the pink triangle past on stage and on page -- 6. "We died there, too" : commemoration and the construction of a transatlantic gay identity -- Epilogue: "Remembering must also have consequences." -- Appendix A. Timeline of key events -- Appendix B. Memorials to gay victims of the Nazi Regime -- Appendix C. Memorials with pink triangle for LGBTQ victims of violence. 
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