Paragraph 175
Paragraph 175 (8" x 8") Mixed Media Distressed Paint, March 28, 2013
"Paragraph 175" is my visual interpretation of the
destructive German law that allowed the prosecution of approximately 140,000
gay men from 1871 until 1994.
Additionally, in 1935 the Nazis broadened the law to once again allow
the death penalty. That change
allowed the Nazis to kill thousands of gay men and lesbians along with millions
of Jewish and Slavic peoples, the disabled, mentally retarded, and Jehovah
Witnesses, among others. It is
particularly important that we remember these people and the evil that can and
does live in the hearts of men on this day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Monday, April
8, 2013 in which we memorialize those lost in the Nazi death camps.
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