The Jewish Holocaust Centre invited me to their United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration ceremony on January 27 2011 to light a candle in memory of the homosexual victims of the Holocaust. Many thousands of homosexual and bisexual men were captured and murdered by the Nazis simply for the crime of expressing their love for other men. I attended the ceremony with my partner Gregory.
This is the second time in recent years, to the best of my knowledge, that the JHC has included a representative of the GLBT community to participate in their UNHMD ceremony. I was similarly invited a few years back for their ceremony at the JHC premises in Elsternwick. It was a genuine honour to have been able to participate in both.
Take a few moments to read the page in the JHC newsletter and view the photos from the ceremony. Think about the genocidal hate in this world that is perpetrated and the people who are needlessly killed because of it. Also think about the people who say they won’t stand for any intolerance against homosexual men and women and yet continue to perpetrate the intolerance themselves.