The Pk Triangle: From Nazi Label to Symbol of Gay Pri | HISTORY

Contents:

• GAY SILENCE
• THAT VIRAL ‘GAY SILENCE’ MEME OM A HILARLY AWKWARD JODIE FOSTER TERVIEW
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
• 'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE
• GAY SILENCE MEME GENERATOR

GAY SILENCE

When people start talkg about straight stuff and you’re totally gay but no one knows even though you’d thk ’d be pretty obv by now so you’re jt stg there like yeah ol guys—’s like an si joke wh yourself. Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny. While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym.

As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. ” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs. Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.

THAT VIRAL ‘GAY SILENCE’ MEME OM A HILARLY AWKWARD JODIE FOSTER TERVIEW

On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot, ” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man.

Posts also often clu some variant of the phrase: “when people are sayg homophobic stuff around you and don’t realise you’re gay”. The Day of Silence (DOS) is a stunt-led day of actn on which those who support makg anti-LGBT bullyg and harassment unacceptable schools participate events to regnize and prott the discrimatn and harassment – effect, the silencg – experienced by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) stunts and their alli. I am participatg the Day of Silence, a natnal youth movement prottg the silence faced by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people and their alli schools.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

In 2001, the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) beme the official anizatnal sponsor wh new fundg, staff and volunteers.

1 Adapted om the official Day of Silence® webse at urts have not allowed districts to prohib stunts (and Gay-Straight Allianc) om anizg events bee of negative muny sentiment or other potentially disptive rpons. In addn to the First Amendment, which grants every stunt the right to ee exprsn (beg “out” at school, takg a same-sex date to prom, wearg a “gay pri” t-shirt), Wisns public school stunts are also protected by state statute 118.

THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

Right here Wisns, a gay stunt sued his school unr the Equal Protectn Clse 1996 for failg to protect him om severe physil harassment om his classmat. Some people believe that they are formed by an outsi anizatn to “rec” and “ph the gay agenda”, while other people believe that GSAs are a place for stunts to talk about sexual activy.

'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE

SB184 mak a felony to provi genr-affirmg re, and forc tors to rm potentially homophobic parents about their child’s sexualy and genr inty, spe the fact that ’s none of their bs. Generally this is done to show support and regnize LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred) people, but n be ed as a day to regnize anyone that is silenced.

For more rmatn, go to the Day of Silence Project's webse at the day of silence GSAs have anized around the Day of Silence as a way of raisg awarens and fightg homophobia their schools. About 16% of lbian or gay youth and 11% of bisexual youth have been threatened or jured wh a weapon on school property, pared to 7% of their straight unterparts. GLSEN has an clive curriculum gui that tors n e to make their curriculum more clive all a no-tolerance policy for homophobia and transphobia all year.

In Nazi Germany, a downward-potg pk triangle was sewn onto the shirts of gay men ncentratn mps—to intify and further humanize them.

GAY SILENCE MEME GENERATOR

As part of their missn to racially and culturally “purify” Germany, the Nazis arrted thoands of LGBT dividuals, mostly gay men, whom they viewed as Uned Stat Holot Memorial Mm timat 100, 000 gay men were arrted and between 5, 000 and 15, 000 were placed ncentratn mps.

“There was no solidary for the homosexual prisoners; they belonged to the lowt ste, ” Pierre Seel, a gay Holot survivor, wrote his memoir I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, timated 65 percent of gay men ncentratn mps died between 1933 and 1945. Even after World War II, both East and Wt Germany upheld the untry’s anti-gay law, and many gays remaed rcerated until the early 1970s. The next year, post-war Germany’s first gay rights anizatn, Homosexuelle Aktn Wtberl (HAW), reclaimed the pk triangle as a symbol of liberatn.