The spectre of the thing: The construction of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Holocaust memorial
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Article Title | The spectre of the thing: The construction of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Holocaust memorial |
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ERA Journal ID | 210554 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Kerby, Martin (Author), Bywaters, Malcom (Author) and Baguley, Margaret (Author) |
Journal Title | Historical Encounters |
Journal Citation | 8 (1), pp. 27-40 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2021 |
Publisher | University of Newcastle |
Place of Publication | Newcastle, Australia |
ISSN | 2203-7543 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.52289/hej8.303 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.hej-hermes.net/8-303 |
Abstract | The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial is situated on the western side of Green Park in Darlinghurst, in Sydney, Australia. Darlinghurst is considered the heart of Sydney's gay and lesbian population, having been the site of demonstrations, public meetings, Gay Fair Days, and the starting point for the AIDS Memorial Candlelight Rally. It is also very close to both the Sydney Jewish Museum and the Jewish War Memorial. The planning and construction of the Memorial between 1991 and 2001 was a process framed by two competing imperatives. Balancing the commemoration of a subset of victims of the Holocaust with a positioning of the event as a universal symbol of the continuing persecution of gays and lesbians was a challenge that came to define the ten year struggle to have the memorial built. |
Keywords | aesthetics, Gay and Lesbian activism, Holocaust memorials, monuments, Queer memorialisation |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 430302. Australian history |
430310. Global and world history | |
430308. European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman) | |
440599. Gender studies not elsewhere classified | |
Byline Affiliations | School of Education |
University of Tasmania | |
Open access url | https://www.hej-hermes.net/8-303 |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q6z72/the-spectre-of-the-thing-the-construction-of-the-sydney-gay-and-lesbian-holocaust-memorial
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