Pk triangl were origally ed ncentratn mps to intify gay men.
Contents:
- THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
- NAZI SYMBOL FOR GAYS, NOW RECLAIMED, TOWERS OVER SAN FRANCIS
- SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE
THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
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In Nazi Germany, a downward-potg pk triangle was sewn onto the shirts of gay men ncentratn mps—to intify and further humanize them. 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. “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.
NAZI SYMBOL FOR GAYS, NOW RECLAIMED, TOWERS OVER SAN FRANCIS
The pk triangle has been a symbol for var LGBTQIA+ inti. Inially ed as a badge of shame for "gay men" the Nazi Germany of the 1930s and 40s, was revived the 70s and 80s as a symbol of prott agast homophobia and ever sce reclaimed as a posive symbol of... * pink triangle gay symbol *
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 next year, post-war Germany’s first gay rights anizatn, Homosexuelle Aktn Wtberl (HAW), reclaimed the pk triangle as a symbol of liberatn.
SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE
Check out OFM for more on the pk triangle, the symbol gay men were forced to wear at ncentratn mps durg the Holot. * pink triangle gay symbol *
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.