Jake Newsome, founder and president of the Pink Triangle Legacies Project, will be the guest speaker for University of Dayton’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day program, 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 27 at the Kennedy Union Boll Theater.

A scholar of German and American LGBTQ+ history, Newsome will share the history of the LGBTQ+ community’s original pride symbol, tracing the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge into a well-recognized emblem of queer liberation, pride, and community. He’ll share the words of LGBTQ+ Holocaust victims and those who found meaning in the pink triangle after the Holocaust.

Newsome is the author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust.

The Pink Triangle Legacies Project is a grassroots initiative that honors the memory of the Nazis’ LGBTQ+ victims and carries their legacy on, fighting homophobia and transphobia through education, empowerment, and advocacy.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held Jan. 27 each year — the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau — is the United Nations General Assembly’s designated day to memorialize the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution.

Newsome’s talk will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. The public is welcome to this free event, with guest parking available at Lot P. For more information, contact Crystal Sullivan, csullivan1@udayton.edu.