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Description

1. xiv, 286 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. "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"--
2. "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

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. Gay people > Germany > Social conditions > 20th century
3. Homosexuality > Germany > History > 20th century
4. Homosexuality > Germany > Historiography
5. Gay people > Nazi persecution > Germany
6. National socialism and homosexuality
7. Gay people > Germany (West) > Social conditions
8. Gay people > United States > Social conditions > 20th century
9. Homosexuality > Germany (West)
10. Homosexuality > United States > History > 20th century
11. Gay liberation movement > Germany (West)
12. Gay liberation movement > United States > History > 20th century
13. Sexual minority community > Germany (West)
14. Sexual minority community > United States > History > 20th century
15. Gay people > Germany > Identity
16. Gay people > Germany (West) > Identity
17. Gay people > United States > Identity
18. Gay liberation movement
19. Gays > Identity
20. Gays > Nazi persecution
21. Gays > Social conditions
22. Homosexuality
23. Homosexuality > Historiography
24. Sexual minority community
25. Gay men
26. Sexual minorities
27. Men
28. LGBTQ+ people
29. Monosexuality
30. Sexual orientation
31. Gay liberation
32. Gay movement
33. Lesbian liberation
34. Lesbian movement
35. LGBTQ+ social processes
36. Queer community
37. LGBTQ+ communities
38. Gay identity
39. Sexual identity
40. Gay people
41. Germany
42. Germany (West)
43. United States

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call number

1. JFE 23-2075

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-273) and index.

Author

1. Newsome, W. Jake, 1987- author.

Title

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

Publisher

1. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-273) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Other form:

1. Online version: Newsome, W. Jake, 1987- Pink triangle legacies Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 9781501765490 (DLC) 2022006797

LCCN

1. 2022006796

ISBN

1. 9781501765155 (hardcover)
2. 1501765159 (hardcover)
3. 9781501765490 (electronic publication)
4. 9781501765506 (electronic book)

Research call number

1. JFE 23-2075