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"Hold hands badge" [NMLH.2020.5.141]



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Catalogue Number
NMLH.2020.5.141

Object Name
Badge

Title
HOLD HANDS

People
Ernest Hole

Description
Small, white badge that reads in black "HOLD HANDS" with the 'A' in 'HANDS' replaced by a lambda, which looks like a letter A without the horizontal line across.

The lambda is a lower-case Greek letter which was chosen by designer Tom Doerr as a symbol for the Gay Activists Alliance group in New York in 1970. At the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh in 1974, it was adopted as a symbol for LGBQ+ rights.

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