>From: phil.attey@glib.org
>Date: Thu, 12 May 94 17:28:58 -0400 Eastern
 
PRESS RELEASE            PRESS RELEASE            PRESS RELEASE  
 
               THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FUND                    
 
The nation's largest lesbian, gay and bisexual political group   
 
FOR PRESS INFORMATION:
Dr. Klaus Mu\"ller, 202-488-2623
                                    
                       HOLOCAUST MUSEUM EXPLORES 
                 GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY IN FILM SERIES
 
    WASHINGTON, DC (May 11, 1994) The United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum will offer four free programs on May 15, 17, and 19 on anti-gay Nazi
persecution, continuing their ground-breaking work on this
little-documented victim group.
 
    "Stories Untold: Gays and Lesbians During the Holocaust"  will explore
a re-examination of the Holocaust that includes gays and lesbians: the fate
of the men with the pink triangle in the camps, participation of gays and
lesbians within the resistance, the virtually-unknown life of lesbians
under Nazi persecution, and the systematic use of homophobia in Nazi
propaganda.
 
    Tim McFeeley, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the
largest national lesbian and gay political organization, praised the
Holocaust Memorial Museum for scheduling the films.  "The U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum's film series provides a rare glimpse of the gay
participation in resistance to the Nazi's campaign of terror.  This is an
important program which underscores the Museum's continuing commitment to
remembering the gay victims and opponents of the Nazi regime."
 
    Dr. Klaus Mu\"ller, an openly gay man hired two years ago as a
consultant to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, organized the film series. 
"Despite the widespread use of the pink triangle as a symbol in the gay and
lesbian community, we still know very little about those who suffered
wearing it," Mu\"ller said.  "What do we know about the contribution of
gays and lesbians to the resistance against the Nazis?  Long before
Stonewall, they understood the meaning of civil and human rights for all
people.  This Museum is one of the few places where information about this
history is available."  Mu\"ller collected the gay-related material for the
Permanent Exhibition and is currently conducting interviews with gay
Holocaust survivors in Germany.  
 
    Films will be shown on Sunday May 15th at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; on
Tuesday, May 17th at 7 p.m.; and on Thursday, May 19th at 7 p.m. For
information on availability of tickets, call 202-488-0427.
    
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