Pk’s LGBTQ Allyship: 5 Reasons She’s A Gay In | Billboard – Billboard

Contents:

• QUEEN OF THE UNRDOGS: 5 REASONS PK IS AN UNRAPPRECIATED GAY IN
• A YEAR AFTER SGAPORE DECRIMALIZED GAY SEX, ITS LGBT COMMUNY TURNS ATTENTN TO FAY

QUEEN OF THE UNRDOGS: 5 REASONS PK IS AN UNRAPPRECIATED GAY IN

Queen Of The Unrdogs: 5 Reasons Pk Is an Unrappreciated Gay In. Ask any gay bar patron Hell’s Kchen or WeHo who their favore pop diva is and you’re likely to get one of four rpons: Madonna, Brney Spears, Beyoncé or Lady Gaga. Nk is one the the LGBTQ muny’s most tirels warrrs, and here are five reasons she serv to be celebrated as a gay in.

One qualy that gay ins share is their abily to thrive the face of adversy.

I wasn’t gay, but all my girliends were. The observance celebrat and regniz our muny’s history, cludg the ntued fight for gay and civil rights.

A YEAR AFTER SGAPORE DECRIMALIZED GAY SEX, ITS LGBT COMMUNY TURNS ATTENTN TO FAY

The history of pk to the LGBTQ muny clus the fight for gay rights, the AIDS panmic, Nazi ncentratn mps, and s early associatn wh genr inti. “And on Wedndays, we wear pk, ” which you n guarantee you’ll see at any gay drs-up party. Pk triangl were ed to distguish those imprisoned for homosexualy, cludg bisexual men and transgenr women.

Intertgly, before that, there were var means of intifitn for male homosexual prisoners Germany, cludg the e of a green triangle to mark the man as a crimal, the number 175 (referrg to Germany’s crimal for homosexual activy), and even the letter A, which stood for Arschficker, meang (and exce the language) “ass fucker. Homosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms – December 19, 1938. We n’t ny the rrelatn, ultimately lead to the e by the Nazis to intify homosexual male prisoners.

A symbol for gay rights and activism.