Acknowledgement
This Pride Collection was generously given to Wagner College by the Pride Center of Staten Island in 2021. By gifting this collection to the college, they are promoting awareness of the role of activists, prominent figures, and organizations in the ongoing fight to achieve equality. This collection is a snapshot of what was held in the Pride Center's community library in 2021, providing insight into the cultural, educational, and social contributions and interests of the LGBTQIA+ community in Staten Island.
For more information about the Pride Center of Staten Island - including their vast array of resources offered - visit their website at: PrideCenterSI.org
The Pink Triangle & The Holocaust
Over the course of Hitler's Nazi Regime about 5,000-10,000 homosexuals were killed in concentration camps and an estimated 100,000 were arrested. The basis for sending thousands of innocent people to concentration camps was Article 175 which stated, “An unnatural sex act committed between persons of male sex -- is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights might also be imposed.” This would later be extended in a way that made the definition of an unnatural sex act vague and up to interpretation by the SS and Gestapo. Similarly to how the Nazis forced Jewish individuals to wear yellow stars, anyone deemed by the regime to be a homosexual was forced to wear inverted pink triangles (or die Rosa-Winkel).
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by 
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past by 
I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror by 
The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by 
Waiting for the Violins by 
Walk the Night by 
Wars I Have Seen by