The Pink Scar

"Examines how American LGBTQ+ activists invoked Nazi persecution of homosexuals to advance rights before the HIV/AIDS era. Highlights how early narratives of suffering shaped advocacy and influenced a distinct American vision for LGBTQ+ rights prior to the pink triangle's emergence as a dominant symbol"--

Thomas R. Dunn is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. He is the author of Queerly Remembered: Rhetorics for Representing the GLBTQ Past and the founder and director of the Queer Memory Project of Northern Colorado.