Pink Triangle Pin - Ali Forney Center
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Adam's Nest's Pink Triangle Pin. 10% of profits is being donated to the Ali Forney Center
- .75" x 2mm
- Silver metal pin with hard enamel
More about the pink triangle from Wikipedia:
The pink triangle was one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, used to identify male prisoners who were sent there because of their homosexuality. Every prisoner had to wear a downward-pointing triangle on their jacket, the colour of which was to categorise them by "kind". Other colors identified Jewish people (two triangles superimposed as a yellow star), political prisoners, Jehovah's Witnesses, "anti-social" prisoners, and others the Nazis deemed undesirable. Pink and yellow triangles could be combined if a prisoner was deemed to be gay and Jewish.
Originally intended as a badge of shame, the pink triangle (often inverted from its Nazi usage) has been reclaimed as an international symbol of gay pride and the gay rights movement, and is second in popularity only to the rainbow flag.
Ali Forney Center
The Ali Forney Center is a nonprofit organization in New York City dedicated to protecting LGBTQ+ youth from homelessness and providing them with safe housing, healthcare, and support services. It focuses on helping young people build stability, independence, and long-term security.
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