Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.371.13
Object Name
Badge
Title
I'm (discreetly) gay
Description
Black circular badge, with text "I'm (discreetly) gay" in white. Between the words "(discreetly)" and "gay" is a pink inverted triangle.
The pink triangle symbol was reclaimed by the gay community after originally being a symbol of persecution. The symbol originated as a pink triangle cloth patch, used to identify gay men in prisons and concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Its reclaimed use spread through the gay liberation movement in the 1970s and 1980s and is now positively associated with the wider LGBTQIA community.
A badge of this design was used in the 2014 film Pride, depicting the activists of the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) group.
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