Today I noticed my local farm supply pulled that stuff of the shelves and put up a sign telling people to see the manager.
i had this shirt i got kicked out of school for wearing it
What a odious monster that thing is. Kill it with fire
I don’t get it. It he a Random Tasks kinda guy or something?
Honest question, why does your sex life drive your identity so strongly? It's one of the least significant (major) parts of most people's lives as far as I can tell.
Because Harvey Milk tasked some local artist (Gilbert Baker) to come up a symbol and it turned out to be the rainbow flag, been a thing since 1978 and it became a thing because Pride did, which itself became a thing as a direct counter to the sociocultural shame and stigma around homosexuality (plus the criminalization and all that). To go even further back, it was actually the literal Nazis who started putting labels and symbols on sexual orientation and the like.
The pink triangle has been a symbol for various LGBT identities, initially intended as a badge of shame, but later reclaimed as a positive symbol of self-identity. In Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, it began as one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, distinguishing those imprisoned because they had been identified by authorities as homosexual men. In Nazi concentration camps, each prisoner was required to wear a downward-pointing, equilateral triangular cloth badge on their chest, the color of which identified the reason for their imprisonment.
In the 1980s, the pink triangle was increasingly used not just as a memorial but as a positive symbol of both self and community identity. The logo for the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a silhouette of the US Capitol Dome superimposed over a pink triangle. Taking a more militant tone, the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) was formed by six gay artists in New York City in 1987, and to draw attention to the disease's disproportionate impact on gay and bisexual men, and the apparent obvious role of "genocidal" homophobia in slowing progress on medical research, adopted an upward-pointing pink triangle on a black field along with the slogan "SILENCE = DEATH" as its logo, with use of the triangle in this orientation as a specific reversal of its usage by the Nazis.
