出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/05/07 13:59 UTC 版)
Pink Triangle Park is a triangular shaped mini-park located in San Francisco, California. It is the first permanent, free-standing memorial in America to the thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people sent to Nazi death-camps in World War II. Fifteen triangular granite columns, one for every 1,000 gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people estimated to have been killed during the Holocaust, stand at the tip of a pink-rock-filled triangular shaped park. The triangle theme recalls the Nazis forcing gay men to wear pink triangles sewn to their clothes as an identifier and badge of shame. Lesbians, as well as prostitutes and women who refused to bear children, were forced to wear black triangles. Pink Triangle Park was created in 2003 by the Castro/Eureka Valley Neighborhood Associate (EVNA), a neighborhood group that says the park serves as "a physical reminder of how the persecution of any individual or single group of people damages all humanity."