Book Tour: Newport News, VA
Tue, Sep 10
|McMurran Hall 101
The Reiff Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution hosts Dr. Jake Newsome for his book tour of "Pink Triangle Legacies Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust," including a Q&A and book signing.
Time & Location
Sep 10, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
McMurran Hall 101, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
About the event
Tuesday, September 10 from 6:00 - 7:00 pm ET
McMurran Hall 101
Christopher Newport University
Moores Ln N
Newport News, VA 23606
Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and community. In this multimedia presentation, historian Dr. Jake Newsome provides an overview of the Nazis' targeted violence against LGBTQ+ people and details queer survivors' fraught and ongoing fight for the acknowledgement, compensation, and memorialization of LGBTQ+ victims. Within this context, a new generation of queer activists has used the pink triangle—a reminder of Germany's fascist past—as the visual marker of gay liberation, seeking to end queer people's status as second-class citizens by asserting their right to express their identity openly.