内容摘要：Eric Berton, president of Aix-Marseille University, expressed a similar sentiment after launching the institution’s “Safe Place for Science” program.

Eric Berton, president of Aix-Marseille University, expressed a similar sentiment after launching the institution’s “Safe Place for Science” program.

A member of the LGBTQ+ community strikes a pose wearing a creation inspired by Lady Gaga’s style at the Central train station days in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)A member of the LGBTQ+ community strikes a pose wearing a creation inspired by Lady Gaga’s style at the Central train station days in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Members of the LGBTQ+ community model creations inspired by Lady Gaga’s style in a subway car at the Central train station days in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Members of the LGBTQ+ community model creations inspired by Lady Gaga’s style in a subway car at the Central train station days in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Follow AP visual journalism:

PARIS (AP) — A memorial to the long-ignored gay victims of the Nazi regime and to allpersecuted throughout history has been unveiled in Paris on Saturday.

The monument, a massive steel star designed by French artist Jean-Luc Verna, is located at the heart of Paris, in public gardens close to the Bastille Plaza. It aims to fulfill a duty to remember and to fight discrimination, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said.

“Historical recognition means saying ‘this happened’ and ‘we don’t want it to happen again,’” Hidalgo said.A first-round draft pick who took Kansas to the NCAA Sweet 16 four years in a row and won it all with the 2008 Boston Celtics, Pollard was virtually bedridden by 2024, unable to walk around the block or even conduct an interview without needing a rest because of a virus that had weakened his heart.

Since receiving the life-saving transplant last winter, he has dedicated himself to, a mission that earned him the honor of serving as the Grand Marshal for the Indy 500 Festival Parade on Saturday. Angell’s family rode along on the float with him.

“Any time we get to see them and be around them is a great moment,” Pollard said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “But also just to be able to share this experience of being grand marshal with them, and be part of their lives.”At 6-foot-11 and a playing weight of 260 pounds, Pollard inherited his size from his father along with a genetic heart condition that doctors say was triggered by a virus that left him no other choice but a transplant. The problem would be