A Pivotal Era LGBT History? - Gay the 80s

gay symbols in the 80s

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The symbol has sce been reclaimed as a symbol of Pri and remembrance of the horrors that gay men experienced Nazi Germany. Green was a mon lor to refer to homosexuals, back 19th-century England.

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