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{{Short description|Symbol for the LGBTQIA+ community}} {{About||the Weezer song|Pink Triangle (song)|the audio manufacturer|Pink Triangle (audio manufacturer)}} [[File:Pink triangle.svg|thumb|A pink triangle in the original Nazi orientation|alt=]] 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 1930s and 1940s as one of the [[Nazi concentration camp badge]]s, distinguishing those imprisoned because they had been identified by authorities as [[gay men]] or [[trans women]].<ref name="Plant1988">{{Cite book | last=Plant | first=Richard | year=1988 | title=The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War against Homosexuals | edition=revised | publisher=H. Holt | isbn=978-0-8050-0600-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKSbQbEzif8C | page=175 }}</ref><ref name="ThePinkTriangle">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepinktriangle.com/history/symbol.html|title=History, the symbol|last=Sattler|first=Michael|website=thepinktriangle.com|access-date=2025-04-06}}</ref> In the 1970s, it was revived as a symbol of protest against [[homophobia]], and has since been adopted by the larger LGBT community as a popular symbol of [[LGBT pride]] and the [[LGBT movements]] and [[Gay liberation|queer liberation]] movements.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |last1=Shankar |first1=Louis |date=April 19, 2017 |title=How the Pink Triangle Became a Symbol of Queer Resistance |url=https://hiskind.com/how-the-pink-triangle-became-a-symbol-of-queer-resistance/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822215528/https://hiskind.com/how-the-pink-triangle-became-a-symbol-of-queer-resistance/ |archive-date=August 22, 2018 |access-date=August 22, 2018 |website=HISKIND}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Waxman |first1=Olivia B. |title=How the Nazi Regime's Pink Triangle Symbol Was Repurposed for LGBTQ Pride |url=https://time.com/5295476/gay-pride-pink-triangle-history/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009194449/https://time.com/5295476/gay-pride-pink-triangle-history/ |archive-date= 9 October 2022|url-status=live |access-date=August 22, 2018 |magazine=TIME |date=May 31, 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
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