Description

My present dissertation project looks at gay and lesbian transnational and transatlantic cultural communication networks from the 1970s to the mid-late 1990s and focuses on the pink triangle as a marker of identity in LGBTQI+ activist circles. I focus on new trends of Intellectual History and traces the Visual Conceptual History of the pink triangle as a multi-layered symbol and multi-temporal aesthetic of a presumed international queer subculture. Doing so, I also explore the exclusion of identities connected to the presupposed universality of the story of the “men with the pink triangle”. Consequently, following the work of queer scholars like Heather Love, I use the pink triangle’s early key moments in the FRG and the USA as a case study for an analysis of the entanglement of queer utopias, collective memory, cultural trauma and a certain longing for the past. So doing I try to combine the psychic complexity of shame, well-known narratives of pride and their connection to homonormative discourses, and homo- and neo-nationalism.

Project Details

Project Type

Dissertation

Subject Group

Humanities

Start

2017

End

2020

Organization

Faculty/Central Institute

History and Cultural Studies

Institute/Seminar

Graduate School Global Intellectual History

Field/Work Area

Global History

Project Team

Director

Sébastien Tremblay (WiMi)

Keywords

Queer History; Visual Intellectual History; Holocaust Memory; Cultural Memory; Identity Politics

Researchers

• Sébastien Tremblay (WiMi)

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