“The pink triangle, once a mark of persecution, became a symbol of pride”
An essay in the Washington Post about the important insights that the pink triangle offers into the consequences of historical erasure and the importance of writing inclusive histories. (November 8, 2022)

A Comedy Based on Serious Political History
A brief history of the Lavender Scare in the playbill for Perfect Arrangement, directed by Amy Berlin and performed at Richmond Triangle Players (Richmond, VA; 2016)

Pink Triangle Legacies: Holocaust Memory and International Gay Rights
An essay for Nursing Clio about how the pink triangle became the symbol of the modern gay rights movement.

The Pink Triangle Legacies Project

Explore the wide range of essays and other free digital resources that Jake and the team at the Pink Triangle Legacies Project have created.

For Scholars & Educators

Jake contributes to scholarship by publishing peer-reviewed research and making resources available to educators.

“Queering Holocaust Memory: Documenting and Commemorating the Nazis’ LGBTQ+ Victims”
A chapter in in Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Memory (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2026).

Contributor to LGBTQI+ Persecution and the Holocaust: An Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Perseverance by Alexis Herr (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025).

“Why We Need the Pink Triangle in the Era of ‘Don’t Say Gay'”
A chapter published in The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice,” edited by the Nursing Clio Editorial Collective (Rutgers University Press, 2025; based on an essay Jake had written previously published on Nursing Clio’s website.

Pink Triangle
An entry for the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons (2019)

Book Review: Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis
A review of Laurie Marhoefer’s 2015 book for the Committee on LGBT History Newsletter (Spring 2017)

Liberation Was Only for Others: Breaking the Silence in Germany Surrounding the Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals
An article in the journal The Holocaust in History and Memory Vol. 7 (2014): 53-71