Talk:Pink triangle

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Gay Activists Alliance

The following is from A Feminist Dictionary (aka Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary):

"Many gay people have taken up [a] Nazi symbol — the pink triangle that homosexuals were forced to wear in concentration camps ....It has come to be used as a symbol of gay defiance in the face of persecution, repression and annihilation. It was uncovered [in England] in 1971 by a man in the Gay Liberation Front, Alan Wakeman, who read in a Jewish library about the whole elaborate system the Nazis worked out with interlocking triangles to signify all they persecuted — Jews, Communists, gypsies, gays, people with disabilities and so on. Although he wrote about it, and although a wreath in the shape of a triangle was placed on the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day, to commemorate homosexuals killed in war — it didn't take off as a symbol until the Gay Activists Alliance produced a 'Gays Against Fascism' badge incorporating the pink triangle to counter the National Front in its rise in 1977." "Politically (as a reminder both that homosexuals died...in concentration camps, and that the struggle of gays can't be separated from a wider struggle) and aesthetically (reclaiming pink!) [the pink triangle is] very satisfying." It is sometimes used with the apex pointing down or (deliberately to reverse Nazi practice) up. (Ruth Wallsgrove 1982, 10)
– Kramarae, Cheris; Treichler, Paula A., eds. (1985). "Triangles". A Feminist Dictionary. London: Pandora Press. ISBN 0863580157.

I did not see a mention in the article regarding the origin, and rise of use, in Britain, and thought this background information would be of interest to editors of the subject. Ruth Wallsgrove is a scholar and feminist writer (Spare Rib magazine, off our backs, Feminist Review, etc.). The "Wakeman" in the quoted text is Alan Wakeman. Pyxis Solitary yak 15:15, 4 October 2018 (UTC)