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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