Pk triangl were origally ed ncentratn mps to intify gay men.
Contents:
- THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
- PRI FLAGS 101: EVERYTHG YOU'VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY, TRANS, AND OTHER PRI FLAGS
- WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
* gay flag triangle *
The origal pri flag was created the 1970s by gay activist Gilbert Baker, iend of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California. Prr to World War II, there wasn’t a universal sign or object for gay, trans, and/or queer people to e to build a muny around Ameri, let alone around the world. The pk triangle was ed Nazi Germany ncentratn mps durg the Holot to signify that a male prisoner was gay or queer.
After the end of the Nazi reign, the pk triangle no longer served that purpose, although many gay men were not eed after the Alli took ntrol of Germany 1945.
PRI FLAGS 101: EVERYTHG YOU'VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY, TRANS, AND OTHER PRI FLAGS
Many saw rceratn well to the 1970s, and Germany would not end rceratn for gay people officially until 1994. In Ameri specifilly, gay people still had ltle rights or regnized muny. When the Lavenr Sre started, which creased discrimatn and ostracizatn of LGBTQ people, beg gay or trans beme associated wh munism and th, the stctn of life and society.
Pk triangl would bee mon aga after The Men wh the Pk Triangle, the first tobgraphy of a gay ncentratn mp survivor, was published 1972. When the Gay Freedom Day Para — as ial Pri march were known — was beg planned San Francis 1978, Harvey Milk and others sought a symbol that would replace the triangle. “Adolph Hler nceived the pk triangle durg World War II as a stigma placed on homosexuals the same way the Star of David was ed agast Jews, ” said Baker.
They flew for one day on Gay Freedom Day on June 25, 1978. Leonard Matlovich, a gay veteran and early LGBTQ rights activist, proposed that Pri flags rporate the black strip and they only should be removed when a cure is found. Weeks later, a group of people of lor was kicked out of a gay bar Philalphia.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
He was missned to create a flag by another gay in, polician Harvey Milk, for San Francis’s annual pri cisn to enlist Baker proved serendipo, as the ia of a flag to reprent the gay and lbian muny had occurred to him two years earlier. As Baker told the Mm of Morn Art durg a 2015 terview, he had been spired by the celebratns markg Ameri’s bicentennial 1976, notg that the nstant display of stars and strip ma him realize the cultural need for a siar rallyg sign for the gay muny.