Memorial to Homosexuals persecuted under Nazism

[fenris]

I think this Wikipedia page shows that the times are changing.
You can read the full text of the memorial inscription, if you click on the image "Gedenktafel"
Wikipedia-Link

[Jay]

The Holocaust tragedy left me in disbelief and tears.

I once told a friend of mine that we are just The Sims for God to play around. He thought I was joking but I wasn't. I don't get how God who supposed to be compassionate allows the death of millions.

[peterinmalaga]

Schwule und Lesben erlebten aber gemeinsam die Zerschlagung ihrer Infrastruktur durch die Nazis. Lesben lebten eingeschüchtert und waren in ihren Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten eingeschränkt. (from the article)
Translation: Gay men and lesbians both experienced the destruction of their (social) infrastructure under the Nazis. Lesbians lived in fear and were limited in their possibilities for self-realization. (Sorry, I'm not going to translate the whole article!)
I think it is a great pity that lesbians have made this monument something that divides them from us. The quotation above would also apply to Jews and all Germans. They all suffered the destruction of their social infrastructure under the Nazis, as did British people generally, French heterosexuals etc. etc. etc.
I thought that the intention of the monument was to focus attention on the gay victims of the holocaust. 250,000 gay men being quite literally worked to death and murdered in concentration camps cannot be compared with closing down a few lesbian night clubs.
Die Errichtung des Denkmals wurde im Zuge der Diskussion über die Gestaltung des Denkmals für die ermordeten Juden Europas im Jahr 2003 vom Deutschen Bundestag beschlossen.
The construction of the monument was decided upon by the German government in 2003 as a result of the construction of a monument dedicated to the Jews murdered in Europe.
Moreover as a gay man, I have never felt any resentment towards Jewish people because they had memorials relating to the holocaust at a time when we as gays did not have memorials. And I would also argue that gay men still suffer from much more oppression in Western societies than lesbians do. The churches in the USA for example have given gay men a very hard time even since the end of WW2. Lesbianism has never been illegal in the UK or Germany. Being gay was illegal in the UK until 1967.

[fenris]

I have visited the Concentration-Camp in Bergen-Belsen one day... - they have a Memorial-Center - and I was so shocked. I´ve seen the gay-victims-exhibition and if you stand there, looking the pictures, reading what happend.... as first you can´t imagine the horror of this times.

But ... It´s not God or the great Goddess who did this... It´s a human-crime, done by worthless cruel human beings...

And it reminds me, that we as gay-people never should judge about people because they are what they are.... and only judge about people for what the did - positive and negatve - against others.