Gay pride colors update#

In America specifically, gay people still had little rights or recognized community. Prisoners wearing the pink triangle at the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, are marched outdoors by Nazi guards on December 19, 1938. Many saw incarceration well into the 1970s, and Germany would not end incarceration for gay people officially until 1994.

Women who were “asocial,” including lesbian women, were given a black triangle.Īfter the end of the Nazi reign, the pink triangle no longer served that purpose, although many gay men were not freed after the Allies took control of Germany in 1945.

The pink triangle was used in Nazi Germany concentration camps during the Holocaust to signify that a male prisoner was gay or queer. The first symbol that has widespread adoption around LGBTQ people was the pink triangle. Prior to World War II, there wasn’t a universal sign or object for gay, trans, and/or queer people to use to build a community around in America, let alone around the world.

Gay pride colors update#

Just as people complain that the list of letters and numbers to describe LGBTQ people keeps growing, making an “alphabet soup” of the community, people complain every time a Pride flag update or design is announced, but the man credited as the original creator of the flag himself, Gilbert Baker, would revise the Pride flag to better represent diversity. For example, there are genderqueer and genderfluid flags, and bisexual, pansexual, and polysexual flags despite some folks’ inability to tell the difference between the words, let alone the flags.