Description: "Examines how American LGBTQ+ activists invoked Nazi persecution of homosexuals to advance rights before the HIV/AIDS era. Highlights how early narratives of suffering shaped advocacy and influenced a distinct American vision for LGBTQ+ rights prior to the pink triangle's emergence as a dominant symbol"--
Brief description: Thomas R. Dunn is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. He is the author of Queerly Remembered: Rhetorics for Representing the GLBTQ Past and the founder and director of the Queer Memory Project of Northern Colorado.
Review Quotes:
"The Pink Scar is an urgently needed book. In the face of ongoing and renewed LGBTQ+ erasure from public memory, this book is a must-read for students of public memory and anyone interested in Holocaust and/or LGBTQ+ history."
--Pamela VanHaitsma, author of Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education