Homomonument.Amsterdam's Homomonument, a triangular granite memorial built in 1987 and the world's only site that addresses the persecution of gays throughout history, has received a 400,000-euro facelift, During its planning in the '70s, groups feuded over the need for such a memorial, with one Foreign minister equating its significance to a monument to kleptomaniacs. The idea to build a monument arose in 1970 on Remembrance Day (memorializing those killed in World War II) when gay youth group members were arrested for laying a wreath in honor of homosexuals at the national war memorial, One angle of the Homomonument points toward that memorial, the other--two toward the Anne Frank house The Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is a museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank, who hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the building. and the COC See chip on chip. , a center" honoring gay and lesbian liberation. Every Nay 4, Remembrance Day, a wreath is laid at the Homomonument. The following day, Liberation Day Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day. Liberation marks the date of either a revolution, as in Cuba, or the end of an occupation by another state, thereby differing from independence in the meaning of . as well as on Queen's Day (April 29) and Gay Pride days, it's the site of a massive party. Pink Point, an LGBT LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender information kiosk adjacent to the site, sells artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. . The monument is on Westermarkt the foot of the Westerkerk church. For more information, visit www.outtraveler.com. |
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