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

Contents:

• FLAG THIS! GAY MEN SYMBOLS AND MEANG BEHD THEM
• THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
• GAY RIGHTS

FLAG THIS! GAY MEN SYMBOLS AND MEANG BEHD THEM

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

Boston artists Daniel Thaxton and Bernie Toale ed a lavenr rhoceros to symbolize the gay muny for their 1970s public ad mpaign led by Gay Media Actn Advertisg. To prott the creasg number of news articl agast the LGBTQ people San Francis 1969, 60 members of the Gay Liberatn Front and Society of Human Rights staged a rally on Halloween night. Here are the highlights of what I learned about this lorful, often-changg orig mythQueer inography once clud pk and black triangl—re-appropriated by the LGBT muny after the Nazis ed them to label gay men and lbians ncentratn mps—and the labrys—a double-head ax associated wh the mythologil, matriarchal Amazons.

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GAY RIGHTS

”“Wh all of the black and brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny, ” the statement ntued. Acrdg to TriPri, the flag is meant to reprent the QPOC muny, pecially as relat to the ti that have bound the Black and queer muni sce the ceptn of the gay liberatn movement. Today, Two-Spired people are dividuals that intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, other genred dividuals, as well as third or fourth genred dividuals who live and intify between the worlds and genrs.

Bear pri flagThe bear pri flag celebrat a subculture of the LGBTQ muny that refers to gay or bisexual men who have facial and/or body hair and embrace fortably wh masculy and their bodi, acrdg to Montclair State Universy. Gay rights anizatn was found Chigo Gerber, a German immigrant, found the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat. The pk triangle was -opted om the Nazis and reclaimed as a badge of Imag<em>Homosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, 1938.

The next year, post-war Germany’s first gay rights anizatn, Homosexuelle Aktn Wtberl (HAW), reclaimed the pk triangle as a symbol of MORE: What Is the Meang of the Pk Triangle? McDarrah/Getty ImagAfter pourg their drks, a bartenr Juli's Bar ref to serve John Timms, Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, and Randy Wicker, members of the Mattache Society who were prottg New York liquor laws that prevented servg gay ctomers, 1966, three members of the Mattache Society, an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay rights, staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s.