Showing posts with label gay and lesbian history. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Vandals Attack Berlin Gay Memorial


Thugs smashed a display feature and pulled down a fence around one of the world's only memorials to gay and lesbian Holocaust victims. Located in Berlin, the three-month-old monument features a film of a same-sex couple kissing that visitors can view through a window. The engraving on the triangle, translated: "Put to death - 'put to silence' - for the homosexual victims of National Socialism"