[Sigia-l] Pink, revisited

[Brett Taylor]

No,

The association with the triangle only was a way for a group of people
to identify with persecution of a culture. When most talk about the
holocaust we immediately remember the Jewish people, as we should so
many were killed, the pink triangle and the gays is a way for pay people
to say "hey Hitler didn't only seek out and kill Jews"; Jews wore yellow
stars, gays wore pink triangles.

I can't say why Hitler chose the pink triangle, I must of slept through
that in my gay history class, but maybe in Germany it was a secret
identifier for gay men to wear like the red carnation was for men in
other countries.


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-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of Frank Shepard
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:21 AM
To: SIGIA-L
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Pink, revisited

Brett Taylor wrote:
> The association with the pink triangle and the gay community has to go

> back to the holocaust where the germans made the known gays wear a 
> pink triangle. I wouldn't say that because someone is gay they 
> automatically like pink.


In other words, what some take to be a socially or naturally produced
preference may actually be the result of a centralized, programmatic
design decision.

Frank
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