| 词条 | Pink Triangle Park |
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The Pink Triangle Park is a triangular shaped mini-park located in the Castro District of San Francisco, California. The park is less than 4,000 square feet and faces Market Street with 17th Street to its back. The park sits directly above the Castro Street Station of Muni Metro, across from Harvey Milk Plaza. It is the first permanent, free-standing memorial in America dedicated to the thousands of persecuted homosexuals in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust of World War II.[1] Fifteen triangular granite "pylons", or columns, are dedicated to the tens of thousands of homosexual men that were killed during Hitler's Nazi regime and beyond. In the center of the park is a loose rock-filled triangle, that includes rose crystals. Visitors are encouraged to take a crystal as part of the memorial experience. The triangle theme recalls the Nazis forcing homosexual men to wear pink triangles sewn to their clothes as an identifier and badge of shame. The Pink Triangle Park was dedicated on the United Nation's Human Rights Day, December 10, 2001[2] by the Eureka Valley Promotion Association.[3] According to the non-profit that maintains the space, the Pink Triangle Park serves as "a physical reminder of how the persecution of any individual or single group of people damages all humanity." [4] The Castro serves as a LGBT neighborhood for the San Francisco and Bay Areas communities, as well as a tourist destination for its part in modern LGBT history. See also
References1. ^News Briefs: Juice shop opening to benefit LGBT memorial 2. ^Plaque which is part of the monument. 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/27/EB291143.DTL |title=Park honors gay, lesbian Holocaust victims, ''San Francisco Chronicle'' June 27, 2003 |publisher=Sfgate.com |date=2003-06-27 |accessdate=2013-02-12}} 4. ^Pink Triangle Park website, maintained by the Castro/Eureka Valley Neighborhood Association (EVNA) External links{{Commonscat|Pink Triangle Park and Memorial}}
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