Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, & Transgenr Symbols

Contents:

• THE LAMBDA: ALL THGS GAY & FRATERNAL
• GAY 101 – THE HISTORY OF THE LAMBDA AS A GAY RIGHTS SYMBOL.
• SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE
• PRI FLAGS 101: EVERYTHG YOU'VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY, TRANS, AND OTHER PRI FLAGS

THE LAMBDA: ALL THGS GAY & FRATERNAL

The lambda was selected as a symbol by the Gay Activists Alliance of New York 1970, followg the Stonewall Rts, and was clared the ternatnal symbol for gay and lbian rights by the Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs Edburgh, Stland, 1974.

GAY 101 – THE HISTORY OF THE LAMBDA AS A GAY RIGHTS SYMBOL.

The Sttish Mori Group hosted the first ever Internatnal Gay Rights Conference Edburgh om 18 to 22 December 1974. The nference tried to provi an ternatnal sharg of experience, so that legat uld fd out the social, polil and legal suatn for men and women om other untrim, and clud ssns on the rights of young homosexuals and of gay women.

Nearly 400 people attend the nference, which led 1978 to the tablishment of the Internatnal Gay Associatn, later to bee the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn (ILGA). The gay rights anizatn Lambda Legal and the Amerin Lambda Lerary Award rive their nam om this symbol. Gay wrer and poet Osr Wil popularised the symbol when he asked his iends to wear them on their lapels to a showg of his play Lady Wrmere’s Fan 1892.

SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE

A secret letterIn 1970, a lowerse Greek letter lambda (λ) was chosen by gay activist Tom Doerr as the symbol of the New York chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). GAA lerature stat that Doerr chose the symbol for s meang chemistry and physics: "a plete exchange of energy – that moment or span of time wns to absolute activy" lambda beme associated wh Gay Liberatn and later regnised as an LGBT symbol, beg ed as such by the Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs Edburgh, the gay rights anisatn Lambda Legal, and the Lambda Lerary Foundatn, among others. Bee of s official adoptn by the GAA, the lambda beme a way for the gay muny to intify each other.

Durg WW2 Nazi Germany, gay men who were prisoners of ncentratn mps were labelled wh a downward-potg pk triangle. It wasn’t until the 70’s that was reclaimed by the gay muny and began croppg up other LGBT circl around the world.

The labrys lbian flag was created 1999 by graphic signer Sean Campbell, and published June 2000 the Palm Sprgs edn of the Gay and Lbian Tim Pri issue as a symbol of strength and sign volv a labrys superimposed on an verted black triangle, set agast a vlet background.

PRI FLAGS 101: EVERYTHG YOU'VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY, TRANS, AND OTHER PRI FLAGS

This term was reclaimed as the name of a lbian femist movement, and eventually the labrys flag was adopted as a symbol of empowerment as gay women ma their own femist ancient Crete, the labrys only acpanied female godss5. Wagner also hoped the symbol stood to reprent gay-lbian-bi bi-angl spired the lours of the inic bi pri flag6. Transcendg tradnInterlockg male and female signs, om the alchemic and astronomic symbols of Mars (♂) and Ven (♀), have been ed as a tradnal symbol to reprent gay and lbian love for many years.

The muny also ed the symbol to be supportive of those who were the fight agast AIDS and to showse the uny of gay, lbian, and bi people. Osr Wil, who was a queer poet and wrer, popularized the green rnatn as a gay symbol by askg his iends to wear them to one of his plays. An activist lled Tom Doerr adopted this letter as the symbol that would reprent the Gay Activists Alliance om New York.

Thanks to the GAA, the lambda has bee a symbol associated wh gay liberatn, and an LGBT+ muny symbol. In the same way as the latter, the adoptn of the symbol occurred wh the gay rights anizatn lled Lambda Legal, and the Lambda Lerary Foundatn. Tradnally, people have bed female and male symbols that e om the astronomy symbols of Ven (♀) and Mars (♂) rpectively for a long time to showse lbian and gay love.