Germany unveiled a memorial Tuesday to the long-ignored gay victims
of the Nazi regime, a monument that also aims to address discrimination
today by confronting visitors with an image of a same-sex
couple kissing.

The memorial - a sloping gray concrete slab on the edge of the
Tiergarten district in Berlin - is a deliberate echo of the vast field
of smaller slabs that make up Germany's memorial to Jewish victims of
the Holocaust, opened three years ago just across the road. Nazi Germany declared homosexuality an aberration that threatened the
German race, and convicted some 50,000 homosexuals as criminals. An
estimated 10,000 to 15,000 gay men were deported to concentration
camps, where few survived. Ingar Dragset, a Norwegian designed the memorial with Michael Elmgreen of Denmark. I am not sure what to make of it. I guess I have to see it myself first. :-|