Between 1998-2001, I served on the advisory board of the Pink Triangle Coalition, an international advocacy coalition. The Pink Triangle Coalition was formed in 1998 by eight gay advocacy organizations in Europe, Israel and the United States working on behalf of gay and lesbian victims of the Nazis.
For more information, please access the Pink Triangle Report Document submitted on August 2, 2001, to Judah Gribetz, Esq., the special master appointed by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to recommend a plan of allocation for funds provided in settlement of the Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation (Swiss Banks).
The PTC represented gay and lesbian victims vis-à-vis various international compensation funds in the late 1990’s, especially one of the most important of these “Holocaust” funds that distributed the remaining stocks of Nazi looted gold confiscated by the Allies after the end of World War II and two Swiss funds.
The PTC succeeded in obtaining money from these funds both for a very small group of still living homosexual victims of National Socialism and for commemorative and information activities. It failed with its largest project. The PTC applied to receive from the “Legal Proceedings for the Assets of Holocaust Victims (Swiss Banks)” – also known as the Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation – one percent of the total amount of the settlement (i.e., $12.5 million), to then distribute this money through a foundation to support relevant commemorative and research activities. The application was finally rejected in September 2005.
More detailed information about the PTC can also be found especially on the website of Kurt Krickler and of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society in Berlin.