Volunteers to form pink triangle
The pink triangle was adopted in the 1970s as a symbol of liberation and pride by the LGBTQ+ community, but it has a painful and tragic origin.
A TARGET of 120 volunteers is being sought by social media-based Holocaust remembrance and awareness group Remember the Yom, to form a giant pink inverted triangle at sunrise on March 30 in the southern corner of Bondi Beach, for a drone-captured photo shoot and community event.
The pink triangle was adopted in the 1970s as a symbol of liberation and pride by the LGBTQ+ community, but it has a painful and tragic origin.
Just as Nazis forced Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David badge, LGBTQ+ people were forced to wear a pink triangle.
With Dayenu LGBTQ+ Sydney – and LGBTQ+ health advocacy body ACON – both on board as partners for the first Remember the Yom photo shoot since 2019, it is hoped the powerful captured image, when released ahead of Yom Hashoah on the project’s Facebook page, will reach a wider audience.
The photo shoot will occur just three weeks after the end of Sydney World Pride 2023.
Remember the Yom coordinator Robyn Pakula said this year’s theme, “is really all about unity – about standing with one another, and accepting one’s differences”.
“Because inclusion is a choice, and awareness and equality serves us all.”
The event will begin at 6.30am on March 30 with a Welcome to Country by a LGBTQ+ First Nations person, group meditation while the drone is set up, and a morning tea following the shoot.
Volunteers must register, and are encouraged to dress in pink, while Thread Together and Rodney Mark will provide pink hats and additional pink clothing.
Dayenu president Saul Flaxman said, “We’re such an image-focused society today, so this community-formed pink triangle photo – in such an iconic and beautiful location as Bondi Beach – will have great impact.
“The project this year is about Jewish and LGBTQ+ people’s shared history of persecution, but also of incredible resilience and resourcefulness.
“When Robyn approached us [Dayenu] to be involved, we were thrilled because this project fits so well with our ethos of inclusion, and promoting human rights for all.”
ACON CEO Nicolas Parkhill said ACON is honoured to be a partner, and described this year’s theme as “a beautiful and creative way to generate essential discussion, reflection and engagement on the horrendous monstrosities of the Holocaust, for both the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities alike … so that we can remember, learn from them and commit to them never being repeated.”
To volunteer for the March 30 photo shoot, or to find out more, email remembertheyom@gmail.com
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