Homos to dykes: GET OFF OUR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL

Started by Martinus, March 25, 2010, 11:51:46 AM

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Martinus

QuoteLesbian Kiss at Gay Holocaust Memorial Draws Protest
A gay Holocaust memorial that plans to display a video of a lesbian kiss is drawing protests, not from antigay activists, but from historians
By Advocate.com Editors


A plan to exchange an image of kissing men with kissing women at a gay Holocaust memorial in Berlin is drawing protest from some scholars.

Erected in May 2008, the memorial to the estimated 5,000 to 15,000 homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis is a gray concrete slab designed by Ingar Dragset and Michael Elmgreen, and features a window through which viewers can see a looping video, currently of two men in an eternal kiss.

The original plans included changing the sex of the embracing couple in the video every two years, but Alexander Zinn and other Holocaust experts have protested via a letter to culture minister Michael Neumann and gay Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit, claiming the proposed lesbian kiss video would distort history. The protestors claim that lesbians were not targeted for persecution in the Holocaust.

Neumann defends the planned video, set to debut in May 2010, saying in a statement, "The option of using a lesbian film motif in the memorial is in no way meant to put on the same level the persecution of homosexual men and women under the Nazi regime. Research shows that the persecution of lesbian women by the Nazi regime was not comparable to that of homosexual men. This is also clearly explained in a plaque on the memorial."

A decision based on the complaints is anticipated in the coming weeks.

advocate.com

The protesters are largely correct, but still I thought this is kinda funny.  :lol:

Josephus

Where can I see this lesbian film? And is it real lesbians or the cute made-for-porn lesbians?
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Josquius

Expect visitor numbers at the memorial to rise soon
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Alexandru H.

An anti-gay Auschwitz-type camp should have continued after the war, as a joint Soviet-American project of good will.

CountDeMoney

QuoteThe protestors claim that lesbians were not targeted for persecution in the Holocaust.

And rightfully so.

Iormlund

Quote from: Tyr on March 25, 2010, 01:19:37 PM
Expect visitor numbers at the memorial to rise soon

And not just their numbers ...

Kleves

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Quote from: Kleves on March 25, 2010, 06:05:27 PM
The Nazis only bagged 15,000 gays? FAIL.  :(

They should have taken pointers from the Iranians.
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Agelastus

Quote from: Kleves on March 25, 2010, 06:05:27 PM
The Nazis only bagged 15,000 gays? FAIL.  :(

But, but...I've seen Allo Allo. All the German gays were in the army, including most of the generals!!! It was on TV, so it must be true!!! How did they even find 15000 to kill???
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sbr

If it was 10% of the population back then they came up 585,000 short.  Sounds like the gays got off easy.

jimmy olsen

Quote from: sbr on March 25, 2010, 10:18:14 PM
If it was 10% of the population back then they came up 585,000 short.  Sounds like the gays got off easy.
I though that 10% was recognized as being too high. :unsure:
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Mr.Penguin

Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 25, 2010, 10:51:31 PM
Quote from: sbr on March 25, 2010, 10:18:14 PM
If it was 10% of the population back then they came up 585,000 short.  Sounds like the gays got off easy.
I though that 10% was recognized as being too high. :unsure:

10% is wishful thinking by the gays...
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Alexandru H.

Quote from: Mr.Penguin on March 26, 2010, 12:21:21 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 25, 2010, 10:51:31 PM
Quote from: sbr on March 25, 2010, 10:18:14 PM
If it was 10% of the population back then they came up 585,000 short.  Sounds like the gays got off easy.
I though that 10% was recognized as being too high. :unsure:

10% is wishful thinking by the gays...

It's more like Martinus and some homeless guy that accepts money for getting his dick sucked...

Jaron

Quote from: Alexandru H. on March 26, 2010, 01:09:09 AM
Quote from: Mr.Penguin on March 26, 2010, 12:21:21 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 25, 2010, 10:51:31 PM
Quote from: sbr on March 25, 2010, 10:18:14 PM
If it was 10% of the population back then they came up 585,000 short.  Sounds like the gays got off easy.
I though that 10% was recognized as being too high. :unsure:

10% is wishful thinking by the gays...

It's more like Martinus and some homeless guy that accepts money for getting his dick sucked...

Lame. Is this the best Romania has to offer?
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Martinus

Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 25, 2010, 05:33:44 PM
QuoteThe protestors claim that lesbians were not targeted for persecution in the Holocaust.

And rightfully so.

Is this "rightfully so" to "the protesters claim" or "lesbians were not targeted"? :P