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A memorial to the long-ignored gay victims of the Nazi regime and to all LGBTQ+ people persecuted throughout history has been unveiled in Paris on Saturday.

The monument, a massive steel star designed by French artist Jean-Luc Verna, is located at the heart of Paris, in public gardens close to the Bastille Plaza. It aims to fulfill a duty to remember and to fight discrimination, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said.

“Historical recognition means saying ‘this happened’ and ‘we don’t want it to happen again,’” Hidalgo said.

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[-] Catoblepas 105 points 3 days ago

I find it so incredibly frustrating that even articles specifically about LGBTQ+ victims of Nazi persecution frequently fail to acknowledge that they were kept in prison after Nazi Germany fell, because gay sex was a crime and they were just considered criminals rather than victims.

[-] cyan_mess 19 points 3 days ago

Plus, the 1948 definition of genocide only qualified racial, ethnic, national and religious groups as possible victims of genocide. LGBTQ people were defined out of the genocide they were suffering. Quite comfy for the Allies back then, and to Holocaust denialists and gender critical ideologists today.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Don't worry. Even while they were drafting the universal declaration of human rights after WW2, which included self-determination (democracy), France (backed by the US) were trying to militarily reassert colonial control over south east Asia and Africa, same with the UK and their control of HK, etc.

They were so prejudiced they couldn't even grant "human rights" to non-whites (like 80% of all living humans).

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