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"Brighton Gay Community Centre badge" [NMLH.2022.371.60]



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Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.371.60

Object Name
Badge

Title
Brighton Gay Community Centre

Place
Brighton

People
Brighton Gay Community Centre

Description
Black badge, reading "Brighton Gay Community Centre" in white writing around the edge, with a pink triangle made up of three clasped hands in the centre.

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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