Pk triangl were origally ed ncentratn mps to intify gay men.
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- THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
- A GEIA SCHOOL STAFFER REMOVED STUNT'S 'GAY IS OK' ARTWORK AND PARED TO A NAZI FLAG: REPORT
THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
* gay nazi flag *
Jt as the Nazis forced Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David, they forced people they labeled as gay to wear verted pk triangl (or ‘die Rosa-Wkel’). The roots of the Nazi persecutn of gay people are ep. And the fact that was almost impossible to nvict anyone unls he nfsed to such a crime urt meant that police jt kept a watchful eye on gay bars and events, and Germany end up beg home to a vibrant gay muny.
Historian Robert Beachy argu that, ironilly, the law spurred scientific tert the study of sexual preferenc, and that rearch tend to enurage a more scientific unrstandg of human sexualy, which further allowed the ia of gay rights to flourish. Hler saw gay men as a threat to his mpaign to purify Germany, pecially bee their partnerships uld not bear children who would grow the Aryan race he wanted to cultivate. Durg that perd, gay-iendly bars and clubs started beg shut down, thori burned the books at a major rearch stutn voted to the study of sexualy, and gay aternal anizatns were shuttered.
The efforts only creased after the Night of the Long Kniv, the 1934 purge of Nazi lears who were acced of tryg to overthrow Hler; they clud Storm Troopers lear Ernst Röhm, whom the SS murred, later cg his homosexualy as jtifitn for his murr. Some were ed as guea pigs var medil experiments to fd a cure for typh fever and a cure for homosexualy, the latter of which led the SS to ject them wh ttosterone to see if would make them straight.
A GEIA SCHOOL STAFFER REMOVED STUNT'S 'GAY IS OK' ARTWORK AND PARED TO A NAZI FLAG: REPORT
The Nazi law stayed place until a 1969 Wt German law crimalized gay relatnships among men over 21.