Status Updates From Pink Triangle Legacies: Com...

"These successes should not overshadow the fact that while the experiences of gay men became better documented, queer scholars faced relentless resistance when they sought to research and commemorate the lives of lesbian, bisexual, and trans people in Nazi Germany."

"'I am so glad I had a chance to read a Polish translation of The Well of Loneliness before I was taken into the camps. Reading that book saved my life. I wanted to live long enough to kiss a woman.'"

"'I know that people from all kinds of backgrounds have been drawn to the pink triangle. But I also think the pink triangle as a present-day symbol runs the risk of focusing on cis, white, gay men.'"

"If gay men wanted to speak out about their experiences during the Third Reich, they would have to admit to acts that the Federal Republic still deemed illegal."

trop trop bien " queer people were legally citizens. Yet laws and policies regulated their sexual lives, while social mores marginalized them, creating what historian Margit Canaday calls a "stratified citizenry" "
+ " The politics of memory, then, are also the politics of power."

Buckling in for an informative/infuriating read:
"The fact that West German society did not consider gay people victims cleared the way for policy makers and law enforcement in the Federal Republic to feel justified in their continued use of the Nazi version of Paragraph 175...law enforcement agencies arrested over 100,000 men - and sentenced nearly 56,000 of them - on the basis of this law between 1949 and 1969"

Going to TRY to lock in on this today