President Obama remembers gay victims of the Holocaust
During a speech at the US Holocaust Museum, to mark Yom HaShoah, or the Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Obama referred directly to the homosexual victims of Nazi persecution, pleading that the task of today’s generation is for the atrocities of the genocide should occur “never again.”
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“We must tell our children about a crime unique in human history… The one and only Holocaust — six million innocent people — men, women, children, babies — sent to their deaths just for being different, just for being Jewish. We tell them, our children, about the millions of Poles and Catholics and Roma and gay people and so many others who also must never be forgotten.”
He added: “We must tell our children… But more than that, we must teach them. Because remembrance without resolve is a hollow gesture. Awareness without action changes nothing. In this sense, ‘never again’ is a challenge to us all — to pause and to look within.”
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The mention of homosexuals is thought to be significant, as he failed to do so in his speech two years ago, which commemorated the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/04/24/president-obama-remembers-gay-victims-of-the-holocaust/
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I guess this is what we call "evolution"... frankly it better hurry the hell up!
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You don't know how many times I've heard that, from supposedly literate and intelligent people. I'm glad that he did this. It's not a nice thing to be glossed over by history for groups of people who also suffered horrific tortures.
Origin of the symbol
The rainbow is a symbol of gay pride, as opposed to gay liberation, which used the pink triangle on various colored fields.
Jim Ferrigan, 14 Feb 2003
Although it was first used in Nazi Germany to identify gay males in concentration camps, the pink triangle only received widespread use as a gay pop icon in the early 1980s.
Christopher Pinette, 12 Jun 1996, quoting [ans93]
The pink triangle dates from Nazi-era stigmatization of homosexual prisoners by forcing them to wear the pink triangle much as Jews had to wear the yellow star. The pink triangle was never used, at least for gays, before the nazis, as far as I know. The use now is an attempt to turn a stigma into a mark of pride.
Al Kirsch, 30 Jun 2002
