NEWS RELEASE

For immediate release

Monday, March 14, 1994

Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats
Post Office Box 11311
Salt Lake City, Utah 84147-0311
(801)461-5058 metropolitan Salt Lake City telephone number
(800)864-0310 national toll-free telephone number

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GLUD plans attendance at state Holocaust memorial

SALT LAKE CITY - Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats leaders announced today their
plans to encourage attendance by bisexual, gay and lesbian people at the
annual state Holocaust memorial which is planned for 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. on
Friday, April 
8, 1994 at the state Capitol Building rotunda at 300 North State Street in
Salt Lake City.

"
The memorial is our chance to remember how an estimated 250,000 gay and
lesbian people were killed in Nazi concentration camps," GLUD Founder David 
Nelson said. "By joining with other memorial 
attendees, we can help illustrate what the full effect of the Holocaust was."

Nelson has worked since 1986 to encourage bisexual, gay and lesbian people to
attend the annual memorials and to help other attendees remember Nazi
homophobia by giving them pink triangles, the symbol used to identify gay
camp prisoners. This year, Nelson said that the group will offer black
triangles as well which are believed were
 used to identify lesbian prisoners among others.

"This is the first year that GLUD is organizing a group attendance at the 
memorial," GLUD Chair Michael Aaron said.
"We believe that this memorial gives us a historical background for the work we do today. We're
able to use this experience to give bisexual, gay and lesbian people a sense
of the continuity of our struggle and a sense to 
work more diligently to prevent similar holocausts from happening."

When allied troops liberated the camps in 1944, most camp survivors were
assisted to relocate throughout Europe. Gay and lesbian survivors were
transferred to German prisons as criminals where very few lived until their
governments released them in the 1960s.

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