RED RIBBON. Worn over your heart,
it's a symbol of AIDS awareness and
remembrance for the over 40
million men, women and children
living with HIV/AIDS is the world.
it's a symbol of AIDS awareness and
remembrance for the over 40
million men, women and children
living with HIV/AIDS is the world.
GAY PRIDE FLAG, debuted at the 1978 San Francisco Gay and Lesbian
Freedom Day Parade, was designed by Gilbert Baker. It's inspiration
came from the black civil rights and hippie movements.
Each color of the Gay Pride Flag, or Rainbow Flag, has a different
meaning.
RED = Life
ORANGE = Healing
Yellow = Sun
GREEN = Nature
ROYAL BLUE = Harmony
VIOLET = Spirit
Adding a black stripe to the bottom of the flag represents victory over
AIDS. It can also signify leather pride.
Freedom Day Parade, was designed by Gilbert Baker. It's inspiration
came from the black civil rights and hippie movements.
Each color of the Gay Pride Flag, or Rainbow Flag, has a different
meaning.
RED = Life
ORANGE = Healing
Yellow = Sun
GREEN = Nature
ROYAL BLUE = Harmony
VIOLET = Spirit
Adding a black stripe to the bottom of the flag represents victory over
AIDS. It can also signify leather pride.
STONEWALL, for gay, lesbian and bisexual activists, the
word signifies quite possibly the most important, single
landmark in the worldwide struggle for gay rights.
Most chroniclers of the homosexual rights movements
trace the beginning of the movement's militant phase
to 1969 and New York's lower-Manhattan (largely
Gay-frequented) Stonewall Bar, at 53 Christopher
Street. Therefore, for the first time on record,
homosexual patrons fought back when Stonewall was
raided one hot summer night by New York City
policemen, who came hoping to arrest gay individuals
for engaging in then illegal homosexual acts.
Eyewitnesses claim that the homosexual patrons'
counter-riot began when one burly, Stonewall patron
hurled a lidded, metal garbage can filled with empty
liquor bottles through a police car window. Ever since
that night, Stonewall has been revered as an enduring
symbol of the gay militant spark that lit that night,
which has become a gay/lebian/bisexual militant
conflagration setting America - and all the World -
aflame with gay rights issues and conflicts.
word signifies quite possibly the most important, single
landmark in the worldwide struggle for gay rights.
Most chroniclers of the homosexual rights movements
trace the beginning of the movement's militant phase
to 1969 and New York's lower-Manhattan (largely
Gay-frequented) Stonewall Bar, at 53 Christopher
Street. Therefore, for the first time on record,
homosexual patrons fought back when Stonewall was
raided one hot summer night by New York City
policemen, who came hoping to arrest gay individuals
for engaging in then illegal homosexual acts.
Eyewitnesses claim that the homosexual patrons'
counter-riot began when one burly, Stonewall patron
hurled a lidded, metal garbage can filled with empty
liquor bottles through a police car window. Ever since
that night, Stonewall has been revered as an enduring
symbol of the gay militant spark that lit that night,
which has become a gay/lebian/bisexual militant
conflagration setting America - and all the World -
aflame with gay rights issues and conflicts.
PINK TRIANGLE. It is widely known that the Nazis forced Jewish people
under their jurisdiction to wear yellow stars of
David, whether they were in the community, in
the ghettos or in the camps. The Nazis extended
this classification scheme to other prisoners
interned in the camps. In one common scheme,
prisoners were classified according to crime and
identified with colored triangular cloth.
Pink triangles, often larger than triangles from other crimes, were used
to identify men convicted of homosexuality (paragraph 175 of the
Reich Penal Code), or incest or pedophilia (paragraphs 174 and 176).
During the Holocaust, millions died including Gays, lesbians, bisexuals
and transgender, all of whom were deemed imperfect for the new
society. But even after the Nazis defeat, the discrimination against
the LGBT community continued. Briefly freed from concentration
camps by Allied troops, those prisoners wearing the pink triangle were
returned to finish their sentence. Those who survived two
imprisonments emerged as second-class citizens even under
democratically elected governments.
The non-criminalization of female homosexuality meant that lesbians
were not intensively persecuted in the same way or the same degree
as homosexual men, but they did suffer.
under their jurisdiction to wear yellow stars of
David, whether they were in the community, in
the ghettos or in the camps. The Nazis extended
this classification scheme to other prisoners
interned in the camps. In one common scheme,
prisoners were classified according to crime and
identified with colored triangular cloth.
Pink triangles, often larger than triangles from other crimes, were used
to identify men convicted of homosexuality (paragraph 175 of the
Reich Penal Code), or incest or pedophilia (paragraphs 174 and 176).
During the Holocaust, millions died including Gays, lesbians, bisexuals
and transgender, all of whom were deemed imperfect for the new
society. But even after the Nazis defeat, the discrimination against
the LGBT community continued. Briefly freed from concentration
camps by Allied troops, those prisoners wearing the pink triangle were
returned to finish their sentence. Those who survived two
imprisonments emerged as second-class citizens even under
democratically elected governments.
The non-criminalization of female homosexuality meant that lesbians
were not intensively persecuted in the same way or the same degree
as homosexual men, but they did suffer.
LAMBDA. In the early 1970's, in the wake of the Stonewall Rebellion,
New York City's Gay Activist Alliance selected the
Greek letter lambda, which member Tom Doerr
suggested from its scientific use to designate
kinetic potential, as an emblem. The lowercase
Greek letter lambda carries several meanings.
First of all, it represents scales, and thus balance.
The Greeks considered balance to be the constant adjustment
necessary to keep opposing forces from overcoming each other. The
hook at the bottom of the right leg of the lambda represents the
action required to reach and maintain balance To the Spartans, the
lambda means unity. They felt that society should never infringe on
anyone's individuality and freedom.
The Romans adopted the letter to represent "the light of knowledge
shed into the darkness of ignorance." Finally, in physics the symbol
designates an energy change. Thus the lambda, with all its meanings,
is an especially apt symbol for the gay liberation movement, which
energetically seeks a balance in society and which strives through
enlightenment to secure equal rights for homosexual people
New York City's Gay Activist Alliance selected the
Greek letter lambda, which member Tom Doerr
suggested from its scientific use to designate
kinetic potential, as an emblem. The lowercase
Greek letter lambda carries several meanings.
First of all, it represents scales, and thus balance.
The Greeks considered balance to be the constant adjustment
necessary to keep opposing forces from overcoming each other. The
hook at the bottom of the right leg of the lambda represents the
action required to reach and maintain balance To the Spartans, the
lambda means unity. They felt that society should never infringe on
anyone's individuality and freedom.
The Romans adopted the letter to represent "the light of knowledge
shed into the darkness of ignorance." Finally, in physics the symbol
designates an energy change. Thus the lambda, with all its meanings,
is an especially apt symbol for the gay liberation movement, which
energetically seeks a balance in society and which strives through
enlightenment to secure equal rights for homosexual people
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