Tigermedia - Gendered Aspects of LGBTQIA+ Experiences During the Holocaust
Gendered Aspects of LGBTQIA+ Experiences During the Holocaust
Date: March 16th, 2022
Duration:
58m:47s
Dr. Danny Sexton, Associate Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, and Dr. Jake Newsome, a public historian of the LGBTQIA+ Past and author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, forthcoming) have a conversation about the different gendered experiences of gay men, lesbians, and trans people in the period preceding World War II, the Holocaust, and the years that followed. Dr. Sexton and Dr. Newsome also discuss how gender and sexual orientation influenced the Nazis’ policies, including how each community encountered incarceration and liberation.
This event was part of the 2021-22 KHC and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium, “Incarceration, Transformation & Paths to Liberation during the Holocaust and Beyond” and is aligned with the KHC’s original exhibition, "The Concentration Camps: Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration and Genocide" (https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/camps/). ? The event was organized by the KHC in partnership with the CUNY LGBTQI+ Consortium at Queensborough Community College. It is co-sponsored by the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College; the Ray Wolpow Institute at Western Washington University; the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University; the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center; the LGBTQ Resource Center at College of Staten Island; and the Center for Jewish Studies at Queens College.
For more information about the KHC, please visit https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu