Germany

Queer Remembrance Day

Nearly 300 lesbians and gay men attended a Ceremony of Remembance at the national war memorial, the Cenotaph, in London, on Sunday, 2nd. November. They were commemorating lesbian, gay, and bisexual people who died fighting Nazism and who perished in the concentration camps. The ceremony was organised by OutRage!, who declared Sunday, 2nd. November “Queer Queer Remembrance Day

Letter to Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl

The Chancellor, Bundeskanzleramt, D-53106 Bonn, Germany. 20-October-1997 I am writing on behalf of OutRage! –the campaign for lesbian, gay and bisexual human rights– concerning the persecution of homosexuals during the Nazi era and the subsequent mistreatment of gay holocaust survivors by the German authorities. We are shocked that the German government still refuses to compensate Letter to Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl