The Homomonument
Friday, 18th July 2008 by James Turnbull
This is the Homomomomonument, er... we mean the Homomonument, in Amsterdam.
Unveiled in 1987, the humorously-named monument serves as a very serious memorial to the many thousands of gay men and women who were murdered during the Second World War.
Homomonument consists of three pink granite triangles, which each form the point of one much larger triangle.
The eastern triangle steps down into the canal, pointing to the National War Memorial at Dam Square. The northern triangle points to the Anne Frank House, and finally the south-western triangle points to the offices of the Center for Culture and Leisure - the world's oldest continuously operating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual organisation.
More information about the Homomonument is available on the monument's offical website, as well as on Wikipedia.
Thanks to romulusnr.
Thanks guys.
Hmm. You do know that this is primarily a monument to remember the gay victims of the holocaust (who wore a pink triangle, like others wore a yellow star)? No? You do now. Care to carry on mocking those victims? Are they less human than you are? I don’t think you think that, do you.
If anyone saw some previous comments by an idiot named “Thorson” I apologise – said idiot has been banned.
@ James Ahh… that explains the comment by paul.
I think you treated this highly emotional site rather lightly. It’s not “humorously named” , except by James and I can’t see any humour in the murder of multi-thousands of people, or the monument which asks us to remember them.
@ Lynda: Apologies if I caused any offence – I did say that it was a very serious memorial – but I’m sure those who thought of the name could see that when written down it looked a bit silly!
romulusnr = me, btw. Honored that something I just put on VGT the other day ended up on GSS. I’d just found out about this site at random recently. It certainly looks remarkable from the air.