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Pink Triangles: A Study of Prejudice Against Lesbians and Gay Men (Revised)

• 1987 ----- color ----- 34 min ----- 16mm
• Although specifically about homophobia, this production examines both historical and contemporary patterns of persecution in which racial, religious, political, and sexual minorities are singled out as "different," "not normal" or "inferior" and become the victims of the scapegoat mentality of societies under stress. A synthesis of many disparate ideas and elements, it includes the research of a German born historian who escaped the Nazi imprisonment of homosexuals and returned to investigate the plight of many thousands who suffered in the concentration camps wearing the Nazi insignia for gay men--the pink triangle; historical material from the McCarthy hearings and the pontifications of the so-called Christian right and the Moral Majority.
• Topics: (Discrimination, History, Social Work, Sociology, Women Studies)

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