Sébastien Tremblay on The Pink Triangle

In this Book Talk Dr. Tremblay tells us what personal situations
during his early academic career made him consider writing about
the Pink Triangle in the first place and how looking at the topic
in global and transregional perspective helped shape his research
and understanding of history. In the following discussion he and
the series editors Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier and Dr. Bodie Ashton
discuss looking at history through a “queer lens”, and how being
mindful of language and heritage is a chance and problem for
historical researchers on a global scale. The book "A Badge of
Injury. The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Memory" analyses
gay and lesbian transregional cultural communication networks
from the 1970s to the 2000s, focusing on the importance of
National Socialism, visual culture, and memory in the queer
Atlantic. Provincializing Euro-American queer history, it
illustrates how a history of concepts which encompasses the
visual offers a greater depth of analysis of the transfer of
ideas across regions than texts alone would offer. It also
underlines how gay and lesbian history needs to be reframed under
a queer lens and understood in a global perspective. A Badge of
Injury pinpoints the roles of cultural memory and power in the
creation of gay and lesbian transregional narrativ. Link to the
book


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