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- HELLO I’M GAY BADGE
- A GAY MAN'S STORY SNAPSHOTS
- LGBTQ GROUP DEMANDS YOU WEAR A GAY BADGE, OR ELSE YOU’RE A BIGOT
- HELLO I'M GAY BADGE
HELLO I’M GAY BADGE
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Hello I’m Gay Badge. Gay, Lbian, Gays, Lbians, Lbiens, Pri, Pri, Rabow, Button P Badg, Queer, LGBT, LGBTQ, Mardi gras. But let remember the above quote explag why Straight Pri isn’t actually a thg: “Gay Pri was not born of a need to celebrate beg gay, but our right to exist whout persecutn.
I doubt I am the only nsistent attene at Sunday School who end up gay bars a few years after that achievement.
A GAY MAN'S STORY SNAPSHOTS
Parents, if you thought the next school year was gog to be safe om left-wg propaganda, thk aga. Kelly, a ncerned parent, jos a special report about the new “I’m HERE” badge one school is askg teachers to wear. Acrdg to the NEA LGBTQ+ uc’ webse, “By wearg our badge, you tell everyone that … Contue readg "LGBTQ Group DEMANDS You Wear a Gay Badge, Or Else You’re a Bigot" * i'm gay badge *
Movg to the 1970s and 1980s, most of my badg were llected at lbian/gay/queer events of those s. Startg wh the rise of the Gay Liberatn movements the 70s, wearg a badge beme an stant way to show our lours, so to speak; to proudly e out public. Therefore was a way to signal to others that “I’m gay too” at the same time as mimizg the risk of gettg bashed by haters who wouldn’t have a clue as to what the symbol meant.
One of the first generic symbol for beg gay to take hold was the Greek letter, lambda, which is equivalent to our letter “L”.
The story go that this symbol was chosen by the New York chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance 1970 for their group. In December 1974, the lambda was officially clared the ternatnal symbol for gay and lbian rights by the Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs Edburgh, Stland. Gay Liberatn.
LGBTQ GROUP DEMANDS YOU WEAR A GAY BADGE, OR ELSE YOU’RE A BIGOT
I have only two badg that refer specifilly to the Gay Liberatn movement om the early 70s and, tertgly, neher of them e the lambda symbol om that perd; probably to differentiate themselv om what they would have seen as a more nservative and closety symbol. On the right is the well known London Gay Liberatn Front badge which subtly ed the male/female genr symbols along wh a powerful fist.
Durg this perd, the double terlockg male and female symbols me to reprent, somewhat ls obscurely than the lambda, gays and lbians and they turned up a variety of ways on badg.
HELLO I'M GAY BADGE
The Nazis forced the gay and bisexual men and transgenr women prisoners their ncentratn mps the 1930s and 40s to wear verted pk triangl (or “die Rosa-Wkel”), siar to how they also forced Jews to wear a yellow Star of David. In the early 1970s, this pk triangle of shame was reclaimed as a posive symbol of self-inty the gay muny.
It began to be wily ed LGBTQ pri march and protts agast homophobia. Here is a black and whe photo of me taken by a prs photographer at a monstratn agast a church Sydney that had fired s warn bee he had me out as gay on Atralian televisn 1972. It shows that, those early days, we had to expla, even to other gay men and lbians, what the pk triangle meant.