This entire situation ended with @queenhello58898 deleting the art they made for Pride Month. Honestly, this just proves my point: these people donβt actually care about doing whatβs right. This isnβt activism; itβs harassment.
The pink triangle was established as a pro-gay symbol by activists in the United States during the 1970s. Its precedent lay in World War II, when known homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps were forced to wear inverted pink triangle badges as identifiers, much in the same manner that Jews were forced to wear the yellow Star of David. Wearers of the pink triangle were considered at the bottom of the camp social system and subjected to particularly harsh maltreatment and degradation. Thus, the appropriation of the symbol of the pink triangle, usually turned upright rather than inverted, was a conscious attempt to transform a symbol of humiliation into one of solidarity and resistance. By the outset of the AIDS epidemic, it was well-entrenched as a symbol of gay pride and liberation.
10 years ago today, 49 lives were taken at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, FL.
Today we remember them by name. We remember the joy they brought, the people they loved, the dreams they carried, and the impact they continue to have on so many lives.
Their stories did not end that night. They live on through their families, friends, and communities, and through those building a world with more love and less hate.
Forever remembered. π³οΈβπβ€οΈ #NeverForgotten #NOH8
"Make someone happy with a phone call". This was Buzby's catchphrase in the phone ads during the mid 1970s. At that time Britain's telephone service was operated by the Post Office, as BT did not come into existence until the 1980s.