Anti gay nazi symbol

A pink triangle in the original Nazi orientation A pink triangle is a symbol for the LGBT community. Initially intended as a badge of shame, it was later reappropriated as a positive symbol of self-identity. It originated in Nazi Germany in the s and s as one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, distinguishing those imprisoned because they had been identified by authorities as gay.

As one of the USHMM’s curators has pointed out, even as the Allied powers carefully worked to scrub Nazism from Germany, they left that part alone — perhaps because they had anti-gay and anti.