#pink triangles

Thanks for asking this💕

It's not the first time liam is related to triangles and he's been a little louder lately..

He even put specifically an upside down pink triangle in the stack it up mv

Louis did the same in the miss you mv and people (mostly larries) went crazy abt it

But liam did the same and it was extremely ignored except for people with their eyes wide open, double standards said helloo, here comes this post that I think everyone should read to understand a bit more abt how the demons -probably, very very probably- thought when it came to make a better closeting after they saw how much the larry closeting failed.

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But what does the triangle mean?

Here's the thing: homosexuality was illegal in Germany in 1871, but it was in the Nazi Party in 1933 that the Nazis arrested thousands of lgbt people, mostly gay men, all this to "purify" Germany, racially and culturally.

After the arrest, they were placed in concentration camps and identified with a sewn downward-pointing pink triangle.

But what abt women?

Lesbian women, along with prostitutes were identified with black triangles, that group was referred to "asocial" people.

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The gay rights movement began in Germany in the early 70s.

In 1972, a gay concentration camp survivor published an autobiography called The Men with the Pink Triangle.

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The next year, post-war Germany’s first gay rights organization, Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin, reclaimed the pink triangle as a symbol of liberation.

“At its core, the pink triangle represented a piece of our German history that still needed to be dealt with”, Peter Hedenström, one of HAW’s founding members said in 2014.

The triangle continues to figure prominently in imaging for various LGBT organizations and events. Since the 1990s, signs bearing a pink triangle enclosed in a green circle have been used as a symbol identifying 'safe spaces' for queer people. There are pink triangle memorials in San Francisco and Sydney, which honor LGBT victims of the Holocaust. In 2018, for Pride Month, Nike released a collection of shoes featuring pink triangles.

This has been used by celebrities but not this exactly triangle, at least not directly, since it would be preeetty much obvious (and contradictory) if a celebrity is being closeted but at the same time it's walking out there with an upside down pink triangle, so they use a regular triangle and people finds the meaning as the same.

So, ask yourself, why would a person use a triangle in repeated cases if he/she doesn't know what it stands for?

Personally I wouldn't do that, just because I wouldn't know if what I'm doing is anyhow disrespectful or against my standards..

Pink Triangle - Weezer [Lyrics]