A memorial to the long-ignored gay victims of the Nazi regime and to all LGBTQ+ people persecuted throughout history has been unveiled in Paris on Saturday.
The monument, a massive steel star designed by French artist Jean-Luc Verna, is located at the heart of Paris, in public gardens close to the Bastille Plaza. It aims to fulfill a duty to remember and to fight discrimination, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said.
“Historical recognition means saying ‘this happened’ and ‘we don’t want it to happen again,’” Hidalgo said.
Don’t worry. Even while they were drafting the universal declaration of human rights after WW2, which included self-determination (democracy), France (backed by the US) were trying to militarily reassert colonial control over south east Asia and Africa, same with the UK and their control of HK, etc.
They were so prejudiced they couldn’t even grant “human rights” to non-whites (like 80% of all living humans).