What is the pink triangle? How a Nazi symbol became an emblem of LGBTQ+ rights
The pink triangle, used to identify LGBTQ+ prisoners in concentration camps, has since been reclaimed by queer activists.
March 17, 2025
CONTACTAbout UsCAREER OPPORTUNITIESADVERTISE WITH USPRIVACY POLICYPRIVACY PREFERENCESTERMS OF USELEGAL NOTICE
© 2025 Pride Publishing Inc.
All Rights reserved
All Rights reserved
By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Private Policy and Terms of Use.
concentration camps
WATCH: Marriage Equality Endangers 'Soul of America,' Says Huckabee
Mike Huckabee made the statement in a speech laced with Holocaust references after leading a tour of concentration camps in Poland.
November 26, 2014
7 Ways to Resist This Week
Protest the concentration camps in Chechnya, participate in the Tax Day March, and partake in films and TV shows that support The Resistance.
April 14, 2017
Log Cabin's Trump Endorsement Proves They Are Morally Bankrupt Racists
The Muslim bans, the Nazi defenses, the concentration camps, the attacks on trans people -- how can anyone who isn't a bigot endorse that?
August 16, 2019
The World Honors LGBT Holocaust Victims on Day of Remembrance
Events will be held all day Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz from Nazi Germany.
January 27, 2015
Kate Winslet on how new film 'Lee' breaks gender norms
The Oscar winner and her Lee costars Andy Samberg and Andrea Riseborough discuss upending expectations of gender, friendship, and radical acceptance.
October 9, 2024
Survivor of Gay Concentration Camp in Chechnya Comes Forward
Maxim Lapunov is the first to formally alert Russian authorities of the region's queer persecution.
October 17, 2017
Gay Victims of Nazi Germany Remembered at Holocaust Ceremony
An estimated 650 gay people, mostly men, were interned at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
June 25, 2019
Over a Thousand Protest Antigay Preacher in North Carolina
Over 1,000 people protested a minister who advocated putting gays into a concentration camp-style setting.
May 28, 2012
PHOTOS: Israel's First Gay Holocaust Memorial
As many as 15,000 LGBT people were killed in Nazi concentration camps. Tel Aviv is the first Israeli city to unveil a memorial.
January 10, 2014
Protest Against Homophobic Pastor Will Go On
Catawba County officials have decided to permit a protest against the Reverend Charles Worley, who called for placing gay people in a concentration camp-like setting.
May 25, 2012
V-E Day: Watch a Gay Holocaust Survivor Recount His Experience
Seventy years after the Allies defeated the Nazis, hear the story of a gay man who lived through Buchenwald.
May 8, 2015
Holocaust Monument for LGBTQ+ Victims Vandalized in Berlin
The public prosecutor is investigating it as a potential hate crime.
August 15, 2023
LGBTQ Holocaust Victims Remembered for First Time by German Parliament
For the first time, the German Bundestag dedicated its annual Holocaust remembrance to LGBTQ+ people who were killed under Hitler's rule.
January 27, 2023
Report: Chechnya Is Torturing Gay Men in Concentration Camps
New details have emerged about a horrific "purge" in the Russian region, the likes of which haven't been seen since the Holocaust.
April 10, 2017
Trump's AG Nominee Ran 'HIV Camps' at Guantanamo Bay
The conditions upheld by then-attorney general William Barr were "deplorable" and likened to a concentration camp.
January 15, 2019
One Year Later, Chechnya's 'Gay Purge' Remains Uninvestigated
Human rights groups are still calling on Russia to act in response to reports of gay concentration camps.
April 6, 2018
The Role of Apartheid in the Murder of a Gay South African Teen
The 2011 killing of Raymond Buys -- and the world's first concentration camps -- inspire the new novel by Damian Barr.
April 4, 2019
Urban Outfitters Under Fire for Pink Triangle Tapestry
The triangle is against a gray- and white-striped background, making the tapestry resemble uniforms gay prisoners had to wear in Nazi concentration camps.
February 10, 2015