pink triangle

(thing) by Mudflap Boy (?) (print) ? I like it! Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:57:46

Much like the black triangle, the pink triangle was used during the Nazi regime to mark homosexuals. Now the pink triangle is used by homosexual men everywhere to express solidarity with each other. Some say the pink triangle also connotes oppression. Many homosexuals choose an alternative symbol of unity, the rainbow flag.

(idea) by Anacreon (1.9 mon) (print) ? 1 C! I like it! Tue Jun 27 2000 at 16:02:24

About 7 years ago I went to Poland on an emissary from my country (Israel) to see concentration and destruction camps there. Now, I knew all about the different triangles (pink for gay, black for antisocials, green for criminals, yellow stars of David for jews, red for political prisoners -mostly socialists- and other colours for gypsies and other undesirables), but until I got to Auschwitz I didn't know that they had combinations! for example a socialist jew would get the "honour" of wearing a Star of David made up from a yellow and red triangles!

I stood there, thinking to myself: "hmmm... I'm a socialist gay jew, what kind of construction they would have had to make for me?!"

(thing) by wertperch (10 min) (print) ? I like it! Sun Jul 01 2001 at 3:06:24

British Hi-Fi company

The Pink Triangle Partnership company was founded in London, UK in 1980, manufacturing hi-fi, audiophile turntables. They were responsible for many innovations, including an inverted sapphire main bearing and acrylic turntable platters. The company are famed for their products' excellent sound reproduction, innovative design and good looks.

Surprisingly, in the age of the CD and DVD, they still make a player for vinyl records (remember LPs?) The 'Tarantula' has received rave reviews in Europe and America, and supports their line of more 'conventional' modern hifi.

Update: Sadly, the company appears to have ceased trading, in the face of a falling vinyl market.

http://www.vinylengine.com/library/pink-triangle.shtml

(thing) by dutchess (1.2 wk) (print) ? 1 C! I like it! Thu Feb 28 2002 at 2:19:44

The quotation on my pink triangle pin reads:

"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I

didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak

up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for

the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up

because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then

they came for the Catholics, and I

didn't speak up because I was a

Protestant. Then they came for

me -- and by that time

no one was left

to speak up."

~Pastor Martin Niemoller

Kinda makes it seem like more of a human rights issue than a gay issue, huh?

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black triangle	I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals FLAMING!	No human artists have appeared in the Top 40 music chart for the past 5 years	Pinkerton
Gayness	Alexander the Great and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Very Bad Day	rainbow flag	Weezer
Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed	gay rainbow	Nazi Identification of Prisoners	Pink Guitar Pick
The Q	What color is a mirror?	Must be a lesbian	Lesbian conspiracy
Martin Niemoller	The Bible's Influence on Catcher in the Rye	Gay	Auschwitz-Birkenau
How I hotwired my turntable	Nazi persecution of homosexuals	Out The Door And Into The Car	First They Came for the Jews

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