In our slightly belated second Pride episode, Larkin discusses the dark history behind the pink triangle, a symbol of activism in the LGBTQIA+ community. Once used by the Nazis to identify gay male prisoners in concentration camps, the symbol was reclaimed in the 80s and used as a call to action during the AIDS crisis. Listen and learn about queer trailblazer Magnus Hirschfeld, which member of Hitler’s regime was openly gay, and Kate’s one red flag about Colin Hanks (slightly off-topic but cut us some slack).
TW: Violence and SA, particularly directed at the LGBTQIA+ community
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References
https://www.holocausthistoricalsociety.org.uk/contents/germanbiographies/ernstrohm.html
https://www.history.com/articles/pink-triangle-nazi-concentration-camps
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-men-with-the-pink-triangle
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/the-men-with-the-pink-triangle-heinz-heger
https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/chart-of-prisoner-markings
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/dachau
https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/jacket/themes/dehumanization-categorization/
https://eguide.arolsen-archives.org/fileadmin/eguide-website/downloads/Haftarten_engl.pdf
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/brief-history-paragraph-175-germany
https://hsp.org/blogs/fondly-pennsylvania/karl-heinrich-ulrichs
https://www.history.com/articles/oscar-wilde-trial
https://www.timesofisrael.com/100-years-ago-germanys-einstein-of-sex-began-the-gay-rights-movement/
https://www.nycaidsmemorial.org/timeline
https://www.holocaust.org.uk/news/homosexual-victims-of-nazi-persecution
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/act-up-and-the-aids-crisis/sources/1263
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