On Sunday April 27 2008, we commemorate the memory of deported Nazi camps.

Among those deported were gay (161 000), mainly from Germany and the French departments annexed (Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhine, Moselle). Some studies, published in 2001, raised 206 men from the annexed departments and four French arrested in Germany. (download the report of the Foundation for the memory of deportation, below).

Report concerning the deportation of homosexuals from France: Download (224)

A major controversy agitated for several years, associations and historians as to whether homosexuals French territory at the time were deported for having homosexual relations. This controversy has been at the heart of the struggle for recognition of homosexual deportation. (Manipulative around the deportation homosexual)

The archive has not yet been opened or studied. But the new findings, made in 2007, mention the fate of 63 victims whose deportation on the grounds of homosexuality (from France) is now proven through evidence (identity of persons; date and place of arrest; reason conviction and date of trial; date of delivery to German forces, date and place of departure convoy, date and name of the internment camp, date of death or release; ... etc). These 63 men are divided as follows: 22 are from the territories, 35 were arrested within the Reich, 6 in the occupied zone. (Press release of the Deportation Memorial homosexuals November 7 2007)

Lesbians, "not endangering the purity of German blood", have not been a systematic policy of extermination. But those who were known not escaped the camps where they wore the black triangle of antisocial. (deportation: http://ken.ifrance.com/dossier.htm)
We expect that historians argue about this issue for more information.

Excerpt of the documentary "Paragraph 175"

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, United States, 1999

Since its inception, the Gagli fought to participate in official ceremonies. Before 2006, a jet was filed after the ceremony. For two years we have built into the protocol and we put in the square reserved for associations.

What seems important to mean that day by our presence, the memories of men and women have had to suffer and die because they were identified as homosexuals. We want to show our rejection of discrimination for what we are, yesterday and today.

I invite you to join us on Sunday April 27 2008:

• 9:30 am: Office of the cathedral
• 11 am: ceremony at the monument in the park deportation Pasteur
• 11:30 am: ceremony at the Victory Monument

Following the official letter of Mr. Biron, Special Adviser to Mr. Prefect, Director of Department of the National Veterans Affairs and War victims, which confirms the place that has been attributed in the official ceremony in memory of deportation, we fall in line between the associations of veterans and the public.
It is a fight that has been conducted for many years to be included in the official ceremony, other cities are not there yet. Therefore, I fervently hope that members and supporters are mobilizing to show how the duty to remember us. This duty of memory is also what builds the daily struggle for equal rights.

Here's the synopsis of the entire commemoration:

Sunday 29 April 2007
French memorial plaza,
Alexandre Martin Boulevard in Orleans

9am: office at the Cathedral in the presence of associations and authorities
10: office at the synagogue
10:30 am: procession to Park pastor
11 am: ceremony at the monument to the deportation of Pastor Park
11h15: procession to the Victory Monument
11:30 am: ceremony at the Victory Monument

thank you all and see you soon
Denis, President

Photo: A Love Silence, TV movie directed by Christian Faure (2005)

For the first time in Orleans, the gay and lesbian action Loiret was officially integrated ceremonies of remembrance of deportees.
We were officially invited to all of the ceremony (the Mass at the Cathedral, the religious service at the synagogue, the filing of jets
Pastor Park and the monument of victory).
We were integrated, as agreed with the Office of former departmental combattans (ODAC), between the public and associations of deportees since our statutes do not allow us time to represent the deported homosexuals. What we will not fail to rectify before next year.
All these authorities came to greet us in the same way as other persons, including the mayor, the representative of the prefect, the army and the representative of the deportees.
We therefore recognized in the jet filed for all categories of deportees and did not, as in previous years, filed a jet at the end of ceremony.
It is a battle of more than ten years seems to be earned with respect and dignity and I publicly thank Luc, my predecessor, who led with determination. So be thanked here.

"Yes, we did not know the deportation of homosexuals. It homosexuals today to restore this forgotten history. "Jean-Paul Sartre

Continuing its efforts to recognize the deportation of homosexuals (the) s, to join the association comemora of deportation in tribute to homosexuals, which in Europe were deported en masse in the years 1933-1942.

Members and supporters: You are all invited to this event citizen.

Sunday 30 April 2006 at 9am
the Holy Cross Cathedral

from 11:30
French memorial plaza, bvd A. Martin Orleans.

We organize, before depositing wreath at the memorial day of deportees in Orleans, a conference on the deportation of homosexuals in Europe.

With Passegué Ambrose, historian.

Thursday April 27 2006 at 20:30
Maison des Associations, 46 ter rue Ste Catherine in Orleans