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A memorial of our own
Advocate, The, Feb 28, 2006
Last year a monument to the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust was inaugurated in Berlin. Now the gay victims of Nazi persecution will be getting a space all their own.
A design for a gay memorial has been chosen from 17 proposals, the city government announced on January 26, noting that the federal government had already pledged about a half million dollars to fund its construction. The design by Danish-born Michael Elmgreen and Norwegian native Ingar Dragset features a gray concrete slab with a window allowing visitors to view a film projection inside. It echoes the concept of U.S. architect Peter Eisenman's Berlin memorial to Jewish victims, a vast field of more than 2,700 concrete slabs.
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The Nazis convicted some 50,000 gay men as criminals. An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 gay men were deported to concentration camps, where few survived.
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