Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.371.95
Object Name
Badge
Title
KEEP THE GLC working for YOU!
Place
London
People
Greater London Council
Description
White badge with blue writing reading "Keep the GLC Working for You!" over a pink triangle.
The Greater London Council (GLC) established a 'Gay Working Party' in 1981 to advocate for community issues and campaign for equal rights. These badges were produced as part of a wider campaign to save the GLC after the 1983 Conservative manifesto pledged to abolish it, eventually doing so in 1986.
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.
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