Museum of Resistance and Resilience Main MenuPraxis #1: Curation and Annotation (Group Project)details of Praxis #1 assignmentPraxis #1.1 War, Memory, And Identity: Beyond Victims and Voice Museum of Resistance and ResilienceProfessor Marjory Wentworth Honor's Class at College of CharlestonPraxis #2 Media Intervention, Multimedia Essay (Individual Project)Entry 2 in our Museum of Resistance and ResiliencePraxis #3 Manifesto of Future Resistance and ResilienceMedia Intervention/Media PostsFinal Course Reflection - A Letter to the FutureDue November 18Vicki Callahanf68c37bed83f129872c0216fae5c9d063d9e11baLisa Müller-Tredecc71af55f5122020f2b95396300e25feb73b6995
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12020-09-22T19:08:26-07:00Quan Pham5397a0db6c0d89356aa3bfe1df14b02f00dd6765377847plain2020-09-23T00:52:20-07:00Quan Pham5397a0db6c0d89356aa3bfe1df14b02f00dd6765During the period of Nazi Germany, many laws were imposed to outlaw the existence of gay men. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem, an estimate of around 100,000 men were arrested from the years 1933 to 1945 (Waxman, 2018). Most likely, they were thrown in prisons based on their violation of a law enacted in 1935, which stated that any semblance of homosexual behavior—from looking to touching to rumors—would result in lawful punishment (Waxman, 2018). Several thousand men were imprisoned in concentration where they were segregated, tortured, and tested on. A 1972 memoir by Heinz Heger, a former doll boy in these camps (prisoners who were sexually abused by guards in exchange for food or protection), recounts the horrific experiences within these camps. Perhaps the most symbolic image of these persecutions is the pink triangle, which was plastered on the uniform of these prisoners and furthered the deep segregation and alienation that they faced.
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1media/actup pink triangle_thumb.jpg2020-09-22T18:41:28-07:00Quan Pham5397a0db6c0d89356aa3bfe1df14b02f00dd6765Pink Triangle3Protesters joining hands in solidarity during a ACT-UP Protest in 1987. They all are wearing shirts adorning the iconic pink triangle and the phrase "Silence = Death," alluding to the harsh fact that the lack of government intervention during the AIDS epidemic is killing hundreds of thousands of people. SOURCE: Kurlwich, Sara. New York TImesmedia/actup pink triangle.jpgplain2020-09-23T00:07:26-07:00Quan Pham5397a0db6c0d89356aa3bfe1df14b02f00dd6765