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Fortunately, there are many ways for a seemingly incongruous piece to fit in with the rest of your room’s theme. In this article, we, as gay travel bloggers, present thirteen meaningful LGBTQ+ monuments from around the globe, each highlighting queer resilience, loss, love, and pride. I'll Be Direct: Take Me to the Main Hall or I'll Shoot you.

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LGBTQ+ Monuments play a vital role in preserving history, especially for communities whose stories have often been silenced.

Perfect for your cultural gay travel itinerary, these memorials invite us all to reflect, remember, and connect.

LGBTQ+ Memorials: Our Top 13 Queer Monuments

#1 Stonewall National Monument – New York City, USA

#2 Homomonument – Amsterdam, Netherlands

#3 Memorial For Homosexuality – Berlin, Germany

#4 National AIDS Memorial – San Francisco, USA

#5 The Legacy Walk – Chicago, USA

#6 Alan Turing Memorial – Manchester, United Kingdom

#7 Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture – Dublin, Ireland

#8 Toilet house “The Pissoir” – Munich, Germany

#9 Memorial to Gay Holocaust Victims – Tel Aviv, Israel

#10 Anthony Goicolea’s LGBTQ+ Memorial – New York, USA

#11 Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial – Sydney, Australia

#12 Plaza de la Diversidad Sexual – Montevideo, Uruguay

#13 Pink Triangle Park and Memorial – San Francisco, USA

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The perfect present to inspire (German-speaking) LGBTQ+ travelers and their allies to travel the world open-minded, respectfully, and with a happy heart.

In this article, we, as gay travel bloggers, present thirteen meaningful LGBTQ+ monuments from around the globe, each highlighting queer resilience, loss, love, and pride. Perfect for your cultural gay travel itinerary, these memorials invite us all to reflect, remember, and connect.

LGBTQ+ Memorials: Our Top 13 Queer Monuments

#1 Stonewall National Monument – New York City, USA

#2 Homomonument – Amsterdam, Netherlands

#3 Memorial For Homosexuality – Berlin, Germany

#4 National AIDS Memorial – San Francisco, USA

#5 The Legacy Walk – Chicago, USA

#6 Alan Turing Memorial – Manchester, United Kingdom

#7 Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture – Dublin, Ireland

#8 Toilet house “The Pissoir” – Munich, Germany

#9 Memorial to Gay Holocaust Victims – Tel Aviv, Israel

#10 Anthony Goicolea’s LGBTQ+ Memorial – New York, USA

#11 Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial – Sydney, Australia

#12 Plaza de la Diversidad Sexual – Montevideo, Uruguay

#13 Pink Triangle Park and Memorial – San Francisco, USA

Pride and Rainbow benches are LGBTQ+ Monuments

Pride Travel Tips:

FAQ – LGBTQ+ Monuments & Gay Travel

Now it is your turn to visit these remarkable LGBTQ+ Monuments around the world

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The perfect present to inspire (German-speaking) LGBTQ+ travelers and their allies to travel the world open-minded, respectfully, and with a happy heart.

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For Statue and Freeze-Related Fiction
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The list of stories below are linked to the stories themselves.  Click on the story title to view the file.  The icons on the right will give you an idea of the primary type of transformation dealt with in the story.  Note that some stories have more than one different type of transformation or deal with several different transformations.  In such cases, the icon represents the most-often used transformation or the transformation most central to the plot of the story.  In some stories, of course, this system doesn't always work...

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Nah. By introducing a sculptural work as a decorative finish to any interior, you’re making a statement, whether you tend toward the dramatic or prefer to keep things casual with modest, understated art.

A single, one-of-a-kind three-dimensional figurative sculpture mounted on your dining room wall is a guaranteed conversation piece, while a trio of abstract works arranged on your living roombookshelves can add spontaneity to the collection of first-edition novels or artist monographs you’re displaying as well as draw attention to them.

You can embrace a dramatic piece by making it the focal point of the room, or you can choose to incorporate several elements made out of the same material to create harmony in your space. If an antique or more dramatic piece doesn’t feel like you, why not opt for works comprising plastic, fiberglass or other more modern materials?

When incorporating sculpture into the design of your home — be it the playful work of auction hero and multimedia visionary KAWS, contemporary fiber art from Connecticut dealer browngrotta arts or still-life sculpture on a budget — consider proper lighting, which can bring out the distinctive aspects of your piece that deserve attention.

Figurative sculptures are representational works that portray a specific person, animal or object. And while decorating with busts, which are sculpted or cast figurative works, hasn’t exactly topped the list of design trends every year, busts are back. According to designer Timothy Corrigan, “They give humanity in a way that a more abstract sculpture can’t give.” Abstract sculptures, on the other hand, are not meant to show something specific.

As a Dutch-German gay couple traveling the world, we’ve made it a point to seek out and document these sites, not just for their historic significance. Thank you!

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Q: "Argo, what is the difference between a Living Statue and a Stone one or a Wax one?  Why are Living Statues bunched with Mannequins in your site instead of the other statue types?"
 
A: Other people may feel free to rail against my assessment, of course, but my considered opinion is that a Living Statue transformation is more closely related to a Mannequin one in that both retain their original color and tones-- at least to a degree, and in the Fiction Archives, I've kept with that assumption.  The simplest way to gauge in a story you may be submitting or looking at is, if the person's body keeps its normal appearance and only to the touch can be found to be a statue, I tend to consider it a Living Statue.  Even if at the touch the body feels as though it's turned to stone, I usually file that under Living Statues and Mannequins on this Archive.  If there is an actual coloration change to a 'stony' hue, then I file it with the Stone Transformations.  Wax is a little different, but then again, I have so many stories centered around wax museums and the like that there just seemed to be a need for a way to separate them.  Ergo the Wax Transformation icon.  :)




Fiction Archive Fast Links:
 
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TITLEAUTHORMEDIUM
Agalmatophiliacs AnonymousCMQ
Artful CrimeDeirdre Hanson
The CollectionDexter Herron
The Gallery's SecretDmuk
Support Your Local PlumberThe Gripper
A Stiff PenaltyDmuk
House of Wax Part 1ZAgnut
House of Wax Part 2ZAgnut
Loren Stands InDmuk
Doctor Dantos and the Wax WorksMP
A New Form of SlaverySteve
Posing: A New Form of Slavery, Part 2cmq
A Simple Quest, Easily FufilledArgoForg
The TouchASL
Confessions of a Xerox Repairman-
Part One: Discovery
Rodin
Living Statues:
Prologue - Chapter 6
Dr.

Instead, they invoke a mood or scene without directly stating what they are portraying.

Busts made of stone or metal may not seem like a good fit for your existing decor. Comments? so in those cases, I have used the "other" icon.

If any information (such as author name, title, or editorial errors within the stories) is incorrect, please contact me as soon as possible so I can rectify them.

And make sure you know how the size and form of the sculpture will affect your space in whole.

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Gay Sculpture

Styling your home with vintage, new and antique sculptures means adding a touch that can meaningfully transform the space.

These monuments are emotional and powerful reminders of how far the LGBTQ+ community has come and how much further we still need to go.

gay statue

These monuments are emotional and powerful reminders of how far the LGBTQ+ community has come and how much further we still need to go.