Gay Community Center of Richmond will host Holocaust exhibit

GCCR is proud to announce that the exhibit Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 – 1945, on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will be on display in our Gallery beginning September 19th, 2010. The story of what happened to homosexuals in Nazi Germany is the subject of the exhibition, which was more than two years in development and is the first major exhibition on the subject for English-speaking audiences. Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 – 1945 draws on materials from more than 40 archives and other repositories in eight countries.

“The exhibition explores why homosexual behavior was identified as a danger to Nazi society and how the Nazi regime attempted to eliminate it,” says exhibition curator Edward Phillips. “The Nazis believed it was possible to ‘cure’ homosexual behavior through labor and ‘re-education.’” Gay men were subject to castration, institutionalization, and deportation to concentration camps.

The Gay Community Center of Richmond is located on Sherwood Avenue next to Diversity Thrift. You can read more about this exhibit on their website.