The Pk Triangle: From Nazi Label to Symbol of Gay Pri | HISTORY

Contents:

• WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
• MLM PRI (GAY MEN*)
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY PRI
• WHAT IS THE GAY MEN PRI FLAG AND WHAT DO MEAN?
• GAY MEN FLAGS
• THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?

The (cis, whe) gay man has always been at the centre of pri movements, but as people opened their mds to clu all LGBTQ+ inti the movement, the rabow flag creasgly solidified s posn as one that reprents the entire LGBTQ+ muny.Over time, mand grew for a flag that specifilly reprents gay men. This 5-loured (and sometim 7-loured) gay men pri flag was signed  2019 by Tumblr er @gayflagblog, but wasn’t whout ntroversy.Accatns that the creator of the flag is transphobic, and that the sign was stolen om the sunset lbian flag, were rampant.

However, those claims have sce been bunked, and the flag beme creasgly accepted wh the muny.Meang behd the lours:Turquoise to green lours reprent muny, healg, and joyWhe reprents genr nonnformg, non-bary, and transgenr folksBlue to purple lours reprent pure love, fortu, and diversyWhile the gay men’s pri flag is another lser known pri flag.

MLM PRI (GAY MEN*)

That versn was problematic bee ed lors that were stereotypil of the genr bary.This updated flag is clive of a much wi ranger of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg men.

That versn was problematic bee ed lors that were stereotypil of the genr bary.This updated flag is clive of a much wi range of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg men.The Reason a Flag is Need In The First PlaceThe rabow flag has always been the most popular flag for gay men to signify gay-ns and still is, even though this flag is gag some populary. Bee of the centrg of (cis, whe, rich) gay men general, due to our world’s generally patriarchal morn stcture, society’s image of the LGBT+ muny, the rabow flag om 1978 and s new 6 stripe form has often been mistakenly attributed to gay men particular, spe the rabow flag beg a liberately clive flag that clus all LGBT+ people. So, for a while, gay men and lbians didn’t have popular, wily ed flags for our specific inti as gay men and lbians, though more flags started to be popularised for specific inti, such as bisexual, transgenr and asexual while prev lbian and gay male flags hadn’t achieved wispread e.

I thk this is jt people who mistakenly believe that this flag has big problems (that im gog to bunk this post) and are makg fun of bee of that, rather than the appearance of the flag beg their ma problem wh .‘‘ was ma by a *sert bad adjective here* person’‘A lot of people seem to believe that the @gayflagblog flag was ‘’ma by a tscum/misogynist/[sert bad active here’]’.

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I thk should be on a se-by-se basis and based on whether you are actually perpetuatg those ias or providg mouflage for dangero movements by g the symbol, but lets talk about whether this objectn is based facts.@gayflagblog is an anonymo acunt that do not talk about issu that are not to do wh the flag, and specifilly has ma the flag clive of all gay men, which mak the accatns factually basels.Gay Flag Blog: Stripe meangs were spired by my rearch of LGBT history, my and others experienc as gay men, and the meangs on Gilbert Baker’s origal flag (which I love arly and hold close to my heart).

This flag was ma for the entire muny and is modified and expand on based on muny n twter polls (thank you @kpower for dog that!) , your suggtns, and your ncerns!Acrdg to LGBTA Wiki: the flag is also known as the Vcian flag.Vcian is one of multiple terms ed to scribe gay men or men-aligned dividuals, meang a man, man-aligned or mascule-aligned dividual who is attracted to men, man-aligned or mascule-aligned dividuals. It should be noted that not all non-bary dividuals feel fortable beg clud unr vcian attractn, and alternate labels such as toric or uranic are sometim ed.The term “gay” is ed as an adjective to scribe homosexualy, and is also often ed by the entire LGBT muny general. Is a term ed for non-woman attracted to non-women, clus and is sometim ed as a synonym for “gay men”.Patroclian or Patroclic: Com om the Greek story of Patrocl, who was thought to be a romantic partner of Achill (the orig of Achillean).[1] Many dividuals feel this term is too long and has too many syllabl.Hyacthe, Hyacthian, Hyacthi or Cthean: Based on Hyacth/Hyacth om Greek mythology.[2][3]Thamyrian or Thamyri: Based on Thamyris is Greek mythology, ced as “the first man to have loved another male”.[4][3]Carnatian: From the green rnatn flower, ed as a lapel Victorian tim to symbolize male homosexualy.[3]Viridian: Comg om viridi the Lat word for green, a lor often associated wh male homosexualy.

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Vir also means man.[3]Casian: Based on the Lat sia meang “lavenr”.[5]Gayan: Has the same meang as “gay” “gay man” jt as “lbian” has “lbian woman”.[6]Magnian: Meant to honor Magn Hirschfeld.[7]HistoryVcian was ed by Tumblr er bivirgil on June 22, 2018.[8] The term was scribed as an alternative for achillean (implyg non-exclive attractn), but the creator also scribed the term as beg a word for gay men[9] (implyg exclive attractn). Some dividuals e as another word for gay men (exclive attractn).There are many flags that reprent gay men or vcians.In the mid-2010s, gay activist Valent Belyaev posted his versn of the gay man flag an iative group VKontakte to bat gayphobia (homophobia agast men)[10] and on Tumblr.[11] It later spread further on the ter and pecially spread the gay activist space.[12][13] This flag nsists of shas of azure and blue, symboliz the diversy of the gay muny and is an analog of the tradnal lbian flag, nsistg of shas of rose and red.The origal vcian flag was ma by Mod Hermy of the @ask-pri-lor-schem Tumblr blog 2017.[14][15] It was based on the lipstick lbian flag, which turn was plagiarized om a satiril ugar pri flag. This sign has been cricized for s stereotypil e of blue to reprent gay men terms of masculy.[16]Later 2019, the Tumblr Blog gayflagblog proposed a flag based off of the prr versn that addrsed the issu wh the old one by addg symbolic and historil meangs to each lor and stripe as well as allowg those the muny to offer put and propose their own chang.The top three strip reprent muny, healg, and joy.

Furthermore, gay men have historilly ed green flowers and plants (rnatns, hyacths, etc.) The blue-to-purple gradient on the bottom of half the flag symboliz how some vcians might be stereotypil, some might not be, and some are -between or fluid.There are var versns of this flag, cludg five-stripe and six-stripe “simplified” flags as well as var lor eds to make the flag more purple wh warmer greens, have different shas of green to reprent the rnatn flower, and one that add the lor pk to the flag[17]. On this flag, reprents peace and muny.And after all that, they all e together to form a pastel rabow, referencg how the rabow flag ed to be the go-to for gay men, as well as how pastel/iriscence and unirns are often ed as symbols for the muny.Another alternate vcian flag, a sunset vcian flag, was signed and proposed by FANDOM er Daemon505. 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. And as a stgglg drag performer who was acctomed to creatg his own garments, he was well-equipped to sew the soon-to-be inic the time, the most monly ed image for the burgeong gay rights movement was the pk triangle, a symbol ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals. At the top was hot pk, which reprented sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow signifyg sunlight, green for nature, turquoise to reprent art, digo for harmony, and fally vlet at the bottom for the help of close to 30 volunteers workg the attic of the Gay Communy Center San Francis, Baker was able to nstct the first draft of the now world-renowned rabow flag.

WHAT IS THE GAY MEN PRI FLAG AND WHAT DO MEAN?

The meang was spired by Tron own reasearch on queer history, his (and others) own experienc as gay men and the origal rabow flag, which [he] love[s] arly and hold[s] close to [his] heart, this flag is not meant to replace or erase any way!

Communy; Also reprent Nature, as love between men often still gets seen as "unnatural" to society and many flowers/plants like the rnatn also were historilly ed by gay men to symbolize their love and nnectn to nature. Joy; Also reprent Nature, as love between men often still gets seen as "unnatural" to society and many flowers/plants like the rnatn also were historilly ed by gay men to symbolize their love and nnectn to nature.

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

GAY MEN FLAGS

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.

They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

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

" This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad. ”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement. 1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials.

Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event. Activists also turned the once-disreputable Pk Triangle to a symbol of gay Polil Victori The creased visibily and activism of LGBTQ dividuals the 1970s helped the movement make progrs on multiple onts. Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.