An article in our Concord, New Hampshire Monitor tells about the opening of a new memorial in Berlin, Germany to honor homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis. This was amazing reading for me as the article reported the words said by Berlin's Mayor, Klaus Wowereit, that 50,000 homosexuals were convicted as criminals with 10,000 to 15,000 deported to concentration camps, where few survived.
Few gays convicted by the Nazis came forward after the war because of the stigma still attached to their sexual orientation which is symptomatic of the postwar society that allowed these victims to be persecuted twice simply by their acts of omission and understanding.
The most astounding fact I culled from the article is the Mayor of Berlin is a Gay man!!! How marvelous that what went around twice for this segment of the German citizenry has come around in such a magnificently positive way. What would Hitler think??
When I had finished reading the article I thanked our patron saints of domestic partnerships and gay relationships for the peaceful and unthreatening manner in which Kay and I are allowed to live out our lives.
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