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Contents:

• QUEEN OF THE UNRDOGS: 5 REASONS PK IS AN UNRAPPRECIATED GAY IN
• THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
• IS PK GAY: PK IS A GAY IN FOR THE 5 REASONS
• BLINKS DEFEND BLACKPINK’S ROSé AFTER HER REACTN TO BEG ASKED IF SHE SUPPORTS GAY RIGHTS GO VIRAL
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

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.

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THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

Before the pk triangle beme a worldwi symbol of gay power and pri, was tend as a badge of shame. In Nazi Germany, a downward-potg pk triangle was sewn onto the shirts of gay men ncentratn mps—to intify and further humanize them. Homosexualy was technilly ma illegal Germany 1871, but was rarely enforced until the Nazi Party took power 1933.

As part of their missn to racially and culturally “purify” Germany, the Nazis arrted thoands of LGBT dividuals, mostly gay men, whom they viewed as Uned Stat Holot Memorial Mm timat 100, 000 gay men were arrted and between 5, 000 and 15, 000 were placed ncentratn mps.

Jt as Jews were forced to intify themselv wh yellow stars, gay men ncentratn mps had to wear a large pk triangle.

IS PK GAY: PK IS A GAY IN FOR THE 5 REASONS

)At the mps, gay men were treated pecially harshly, by guards and fellow prisoners alike.

“There was no solidary for the homosexual prisoners; they belonged to the lowt ste, ” Pierre Seel, a gay Holot survivor, wrote his memoir I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, timated 65 percent of gay men ncentratn mps died between 1933 and 1945.

Even after World War II, both East and Wt Germany upheld the untry’s anti-gay law, and many gays remaed rcerated until the early 1970s. )The early 1970s was also when the gay rights movement began to emerge Germany.

BLINKS DEFEND BLACKPINK’S ROSé AFTER HER REACTN TO BEG ASKED IF SHE SUPPORTS GAY RIGHTS GO VIRAL

In 1972, The Men wh the Pk Triangle, the first tobgraphy of a gay ncentratn mp survivor, was published.

The next year, post-war Germany’s first gay rights anizatn, Homosexuelle Aktn Wtberl (HAW), reclaimed the pk triangle as a symbol of liberatn.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Horac Villalobos/Corbis/Getty ImagMemorial plaqu for homosexuals, Jehovah's Wns and Wehrmacht serters are placed where once stood one of the molished barracks Buchenwald ncentratn mp near Weimar, Germany.