Instead of me yet again ranting about using Nazi imagery for anything other than actual Nazis, I’ll give a brief history lesson.Toward the end of WWII, US troops were liberating the concentration camps and witnessed Mankind’s nature at its absolute, absolute worst. As they liberated the camps and provided care and treatment for the prisoners, they saw the inverted triangle badges the prisoners wore and learned what they meant. Jews, of course, wore a badge consisting of two yellow triangles forming a star. Political prisoners wore a red inverted triangle while PoWs wore red uninverted triangles. The homeless, addicts, and the mentally ill wore black triangles. Gay men wore pink triangles. When US led forces liberating camps learned what the pink triangles meant, they often put those men back into the camps. The then newly formed West Germany then put those gays into actual prisons. This is because when the Allied forces created West Germany and it’s government, they decided to leave in place the Nazi laws against homosexuality.So instead of ranting about using Clay’s use Nazi imagery, I leave you with the thought that American soldiers who fought for freedom in WWII saw the devastation and utter depravity inflicted on their fellow man and decided that gay people deserved it. This is why gay culture for so long had adopted the pink triangle and the Greek letter Lambda as symbols of gay pride and why pathetic little attempts at legalized discrimination will ultimately fail. Gays have endured the worst humanity has to offer and survived. We will survive the likes of Bob Martial and the pseudo-Christians as well.
Instead of me yet again ranting about using Nazi imagery for anything other than actual Nazis, I’ll give a brief history lesson.Toward the end of WWII, US troops were liberating the concentration camps and witnessed Mankind’s nature at its absolute, absolute worst. As they liberated the camps and provided care and treatment for the prisoners, they saw the inverted triangle badges the prisoners wore and learned what they meant. Jews, of course, wore a badge consisting of two yellow triangles forming a star. Political prisoners wore a red inverted triangle while PoWs wore red uninverted triangles. The homeless, addicts, and the mentally ill wore black triangles. Gay men wore pink triangles. When US led forces liberating camps learned what the pink triangles meant, they often put those men back into the camps. The then newly formed West Germany then put those gays into actual prisons. This is because when the Allied forces created West Germany and it’s government, they decided to leave in place the Nazi laws against homosexuality.So instead of ranting about using Clay’s use Nazi imagery, I leave you with the thought that American soldiers who fought for freedom in WWII saw the devastation and utter depravity inflicted on their fellow man and decided that gay people deserved it. This is why gay culture for so long had adopted the pink triangle and the Greek letter Lambda as symbols of gay pride and why pathetic little attempts at legalized discrimination will ultimately fail. Gays have endured the worst humanity has to offer and survived. We will survive the likes of Bob Martial and the pseudo-Christians as well.