Gay and Lesbian Memorial - Tel Aviv, Memorial to persecuted gay and lesbian Holocaust victims in Meir Park, Tel Aviv, Israel

The Gay and Lesbian Memorial in Meir Park consists of three triangles designed by architect Avi Levy and landscape architect Yael Moriah. One is painted pink, recalling the badge homosexual prisoners had to wear; a second is formed by three pink benches inscribed in Hebrew, English and German; the third is concrete and carries the historical text written with historian Moshe Zimmermann.

The memorial was inaugurated on 10 January 2014 by Mayor Ron Huldai and German ambassador Andreas Michaelis. It was the seventh such monument worldwide and the first in Israel to commemorate non-Jewish Holocaust victims. The initiative came from the LGBT association Aguda, city councillor Eran Lev of Meretz, and other activists. On 25 October 2018 it was defaced with the graffiti "death to LGBT".

The three pink benches carry the dedication in Hebrew, English and German, so the same sentence is read in the language of the perpetrators and of the victims. The concrete triangle names Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a pioneer of the fight for homosexual rights, and Gad Beck, a Zionist activist who was the last surviving homosexual Holocaust victim and died in 2012. The historian Moshe Zimmermann of the Hebrew University wrote the central inscription.

The memorial stands in Meir Park, a short walk from the city's LGBT Community Centre. It consists of three separate triangles set on the ground: a painted pink triangle, three pink benches facing it, and a concrete triangle with the historical text. The inscriptions are in Hebrew, English and German, so visitors can read the explanation in any of the three.

The pink triangle design references the symbol homosexual prisoners were forced to wear under Nazi rule, making this dark chapter visually tangible. Few visitors realize this form was deliberately chosen to communicate historical reality directly and powerfully.