Danke Schoen

Thanks to my sister-in-law for sending me this article about a memorial to be constructed in Berlin commemorating the thousands of homosexuals deported to Nazi concentration camps in the 1930s and '40s:

"The concrete sculpture takes its cue from the Holocaust monument designed by star architect Peter Eisenman. It expands on the gray cement slab theme, by turning it into a kind of house. . . . [T]he structure, which appears cool and distant at first glance, actually conceals an intimate aspect -- it will have an oblique window featuring a black and white video of 'an endless kiss between two men.' "

Let's raise a glass to modern Germany (as it happens, where I was born) and to Ingar Dragset and Michael Elmgreen, the Danish-Norwegian pair who designed the planned memorial -- heck, to all of those socially progressive and hearteningly tolerant European countries (including Sweden).