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LGBT symbols

January 20, 2023

Over the course of its history, the LGBT community has adopted certain symbols for self-identification to demonstrate unity, pride, shared values, and allegiance to one another. These symbols communicate ideas, concepts, and identity both within their communities and to mainstream culture. The two symbols most recognized internationally are the pink triangle and the rainbow flag.[citation needed]

Letters and glyphs

Gender symbols

Further information on sex and gender symbols: Gender symbol § Sexual orientation and gender politics
 
Lesbian and gay interlocked gender sex symbols

The female and male gender symbols are derived from the astronomical symbols for the planets Venus and Mars respectively. Following Linnaeus, biologists use the planetary symbol for Venus to represent the female sex, and the planetary symbol for Mars to represent the male sex.

Two interlocking female symbols (⚢) represent a lesbian or the lesbian community, and two interlocking male symbols (⚣) a gay male or the gay male community.[1][2] These symbols first appeared in the 1970s.[2]

The combined male-female symbol (⚦) is used to represent androgyne or transgender people; and when additionally combined with the female (♀) and male (♂) symbols (⚧) it indicates gender inclusivity, though it is also used as a transgender symbol.[3][4]

Lambda

In 1970, graphic designer Tom Doerr selected the lower-case Greek letter lambda (λ) to be the symbol of the New York chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance.[5][6] The alliance's literature states that Doerr chose the symbol specifically for its denotative meaning in the context of chemistry and physics: "a complete exchange of energy–that moment or span of time witness to absolute activity".[5]

The lambda became associated with Gay Liberation,[7][8] and in December 1974, it was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.[9] The gay rights organization Lambda Legal and the American Lambda Literary Foundation derive their names from this symbol.

Plants and animals

See also: Language of flowers
 
Green carnation

In 19th-century England, green indicated homosexual affiliations, as popularized by gay author Oscar Wilde, who often wore a green carnation on his lapel.[10][11] According to some interpretations, American poet Walt Whitman used the sweet flag plant to represent homoerotic male love because of its phallic connotations.[12]

 
Roses have been associated with male love in both ancient Greece and modern Japan.

The term bara (薔薇), "rose" in Japanese, has historically been used in Japan as a pejorative for men who love men, roughly equivalent to the English language term "pansy".[13][14]: 40  Beginning in the 1960s, the term was reappropriated by Japanese gay media: notably with the 1961 anthology Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses [ja], a collection of semi-nude photographs of homosexual writer Yukio Mishima by photographer Eikoh Hosoe,[14]: 34  and later with Barazoku (薔薇族, lit. "rose tribe") in 1971, the first commercially produced gay magazine in Asia.[15] The use of the rose as a prominent symbol of love between males is supposedly derived from the Greek myth of King Laius having affairs with boys under rose trees.[16] Since the 2000s, bara has been used by non-Japanese audience as an umbrella term to describe a wide variety of Japanese and non-Japanese gay media featuring love and sex between masculine men.[17] The rose is also the sacred flower of Eros,[18] the Greek god of love and sex, and patron of love between men.[19] Eros was responsible for the first rose to sprout on Earth, followed by every flower and herb.[20] Roses are a symbol of pederasty in ancient Greece: handsome boys were metaphorically called roses by their male admirers in homoerotic poems such as those by Solon, Straton, Meleager, Rhianus, and Philostratos.[21]

Animals that lovers gave as gifts to their beloved also became symbols of pederastic love, such as hares, roosters, deer, felines and oxen, as a metaphor for sexual pursuits.[22][23]

 
Violets, symbol of Sapphic love.

Violets and their color became a special code used by lesbians and bisexual women.[24][25][26] The symbolism of the flower derives from several fragments of poems by Sappho in which she describes a lover wearing garlands or a crown with violets.[27][28] In 1926, the play La Prisonnière by Édouard Bourdet used a bouquet of violets to signify lesbian love.[29] When the play became subject to censorship, many Parisian lesbians wore violets to demonstrate solidarity with its lesbian subject matter.[30]

 
A white lily, the de facto symbol of the yuri genre

White lilies have been used since the Romantic era of Japanese literature to symbolize beauty and purity in women, and are a de facto symbol of the yuri genre (yuri (百合) translates literally to "lily"),[31] which describes the portrayal of intimate love, sex, or emotional connections between women.[32] The term Yurizoku (百合族, lit. "lily tribe") was coined in 1976 by Bungaku Itō [ja], editor of the gay men's magazine Barazoku (see above), to refer to his female readers.[33][34] While not all those women were lesbians, and it is unclear whether this was the first instance of the term yuri in this context, an association of yuri with lesbianism subsequently developed.[35] In Korea and China, "lily" is used as a semantic loan from the Japanese usage to describe female-female romance media, where each use the direct translation of the term – baekhap (백합) in Korea[36] and bǎihé (百合) in China.[37]

Lavender rhinoceros

See also: Lavender Mafia
 
A lavender rhinoceros, a symbol used in 1970s Boston as a sign of gay visibility.

Daniel Thaxton and Bernie Toale created a lavender rhinoceros symbol for a public ad campaign to increase visibility for gay people in Boston helmed by Gay Media Action-Advertising; Toale said they chose a rhinoceros because "it is a much maligned and misunderstood animal" and that it was lavender because that is a mix of pink and blue, making it a symbolic merger of the feminine and masculine. However, in May 1974, Metro Transit Advertising said its lawyers could not "determine eligibility of the public service rate" for the lavender rhinoceros ads, which tripled the cost of the ad campaign. Gay Media Action challenged this but were unsuccessful. The lavender rhinoceros symbol was seen on signs, pins, and t-shirts at the Boston Pride Parade later in 1974, and a life-sized papier-mâché lavender rhinoceros was part of the parade. Money was raised for the ads, and they began running on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Green Line by December 3, 1974, and ran there until February 1975. The lavender rhinoceros continued as a symbol of the gay community, appearing at the 1976 Boston Pride Parade and on a flag that was raised at Boston City Hall in 1987.[38]

Unicorns

See also: Unicorn
 
Pride festival attendee carrying an inflatable unicorn in Washington, D.C.

Unicorns have become a symbol of LGBT culture due to earlier associations between the animal and rainbows being extended to the rainbow flag created in 1978 by Gilbert Baker.[39]

Alice Fisher of The Guardian wrote in 2017, "The unicorn has also done its bit for the LGBT community in the last century... Rainbows and unicorns are so intrinsically linked (the association is also a Victorian invention) that it's unsurprising that the magic creature started to appear on T-shirts and banners at Gay Pride around the world, with slogans such as 'Gender is Imaginary' or 'Totally Straight' emblazoned under sparkling rainbow unicorns."[40]

Gay Star News has said unicorns are "queer icons of our time".[41]

Triangle badges of Nazi Germany

Main articles: Pink triangle and Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany

One of the oldest of these symbols is the downward-pointing pink triangle that male homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps were required to wear on their clothing. The badge is one of several badges that internees wore to identify what kind of prisoners they were.[42] Many of the estimated 5,000–15,000 gay men imprisoned in concentration camps did not survive.[43] The pink triangle was later reclaimed by gay men, as well as some lesbians, in various political movements as a symbol of personal pride and remembrance.[44][45] AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) adopted the downward-pointing pink triangle to symbolize the "active fight back" against HIV/AIDS "rather than a passive resignation to fate."[46]

The pink triangle was used exclusively with male prisoners, as lesbians were not included under Paragraph 175, a statute which made homosexual acts between males a crime.[47] Lesbian sexual relations were illegal only in Austria and historians differ on whether they were persecuted or not, due to lack of evidence.[48] Some lesbians were imprisoned with a black triangle symbolizing supposed "asociality", this symbol was later reclaimed by postwar lesbians.[45]

Pink triangle Black triangle Pink and yellow triangles
     
The downward-pointing pink triangle used to identify homosexual men in the concentration camps. The downward-pointing black triangle used to mark individuals considered "asocial". The category included homosexual women, nonconformists, sex workers, nomads, Romani, and others. The downward-pointing pink triangle overlapping a yellow triangle was used to single out male homosexual prisoners who were Jewish.

Other symbols

Symbols of the LGBT community have been used to represent members' unity, pride, shared values, and allegiance to one another.

Asexual symbols

 
Ace ring

The ace ring, a black ring (also known as an ace ring) worn on the middle finger of one's right hand is a way asexual people signify their asexuality. The ring is deliberately worn in a similar manner as one would a wedding ring to symbolize marriage. Use of the symbol began in 2005.[49][50]

Ace playing cards, due to the phonetic shortening from asexual to ace, are sometimes used to represent asexuality. The ace of hearts and ace of spades are used to symbolize romantic asexuality and aromantic asexuality respectively.[51] Likewise, the ace of clubs is used to symbolize gray asexuality and gray aromantics, and the ace of diamonds is used to symbolize demi-romantics and demisexuals.[52]

Freedom rings

Freedom rings, designed by David Spada and released in 1991, are six aluminum rings, each in one of the colors of the rainbow flag. Symbolizing happiness and diversity, these rings are worn by themselves or as part of necklaces, bracelets, and key chains.[53] They are sometimes referred to as "Fruit Loops".[54]

Handkerchief code

Main article: Handkerchief code
 
Handkerchiefs worn in back pockets communicate sexual interests

In some New York City gay circles of the early 20th century, gay men wore a red necktie or bow tie as a subtle signal.[55] In the 1970s, the handkerchief (or hanky) code emerged in the form of bandanas, worn in back pockets, in colors that signaled sexual interests, fetishes, and if the wearer was a "top" or "bottom".[56][57]

High five

There are many origin stories of the high five,[58] but the two most documented candidates are Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke of the Los Angeles Dodgers professional baseball team on October 2, 1977, and Wiley Brown and Derek Smith of the Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team during the 1978–1979 season.[59][60] In any case, after retiring from baseball, Burke, who was one of the first openly gay professional athletes, used the high five with other gay residents of the Castro district of San Francisco, where for many it became a symbol of gay pride and identification.[59]

Purple hand

See also: Lavender Mafia

On October 31, 1969, sixty members of the Gay Liberation Front, the Committee for Homosexual Freedom (CHF), and the Gay Guerilla Theatre group staged a protest outside the offices of the San Francisco Examiner in response to a series of news articles disparaging people in San Francisco's gay bars and clubs.[61][62] The peaceful protest against the Examiner turned tumultuous and was later called "Friday of the Purple Hand" and "Bloody Friday of the Purple Hand".[61][63][64][65] Examiner employees "dumped a barrel of printers' ink on the crowd from the roof of the newspaper building", according to glbtq.com.[66] Some reports state that it was a barrel of ink poured from the roof of the building.[67] The protestors "used the ink to scrawl slogans on the building walls" and slap purple hand prints "throughout downtown [San Francisco]" resulting in "one of the most visible demonstrations of gay power" according to the Bay Area Reporter.[61][64][63] According to Larry LittleJohn, then president of Society for Individual Rights, "At that point, the tactical squad arrived – not to get the employees who dumped the ink, but to arrest the demonstrators. Somebody could have been hurt if that ink had gotten into their eyes, but the police were knocking people to the ground."[61] The accounts of police brutality include women being thrown to the ground and protesters' teeth being knocked out.[61][68] Inspired by Black Hand extortion methods of Camorra gangsters and the Mafia,[69] some gay and lesbian activists attempted to institute "purple hand" as a warning to stop anti-gay attacks, but with little success.[citation needed] In Turkey, the LGBT rights organization MorEl Eskişehir LGBTT Oluşumu (Purple Hand Eskişehir LGBT Formation), also bears the name of this symbol.[70]

White Knot

 
A White Knot

The White Knot is a symbol of support for same-sex marriage in the United States. The White Knot combines two symbols of marriage, the color white and "tying the knot" to represent support for same-sex marriage.[71] The White Knot has been worn publicly by many celebrities as a means of demonstrating solidarity with that cause.[72]

The White Knot was created by Frank Voci in November 2008, in response to the passage of Proposition 8 in California and bans on same-sex marriage and denial of other civil rights for LGBT persons across the nation.[73]

Flags

 
Created in 1978, the rainbow flag is the most commonly used pride flag.[74][75]
This paragraph is an excerpt from Pride flag.[edit]

A pride flag is any flag that represents a segment or part of the LGBT community. Pride in this case refers to the notion of gay pride. The terms LGBT flag and queer flag are often used interchangeably.[76]

Pride flags can represent various sexual orientations, romantic orientations, gender identities, subcultures, and regional purposes, as well as the LGBT community as a whole. There are also some pride flags that are not exclusively related to LGBT matters, such as the flag for leather subculture. The rainbow flag, which represents the entire LGBT community, is the most widely used pride flag.

Gallery

Symbols

Simple icons

Flags

This section is an excerpt from Pride flag § Gallery.[edit]

Location-based flags

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to LGBT pride flags by country.

Encoding

This table contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols.
For information on entering these symbols in a document, see Unicode input.
The meanings given here are those formally associated with the symbol in Unicode. They may be used with other meanings elsewhere. See also Gender symbols#Encoding.
Unicode name[106] symbol hex dec Associated wording[106]
MERCURY   ☿ U+263F ☿ Intersexuality
DOUBLED FEMALE SIGN   ⚢ U+26A2 ⚢ Female homosexuality
DOUBLED MALE SIGN   ⚣ U+26A3 ⚣ Male homosexuality
INTERLOCKED MALE AND FEMALE SIGN   ⚤ U+26A4 ⚤ Heterosexuality
MALE AND FEMALE SIGN   ⚥ U+26A5 ⚥ Intersex, androgynous; hermaphrodite (in botany)
MALE WITH STROKE SIGN   ⚦ U+26A6 ⚦ Transgender
MALE WITH STROKE AND MALE AND FEMALE SIGN   ⚧ U+26A7 ⚧ Transgender
VERTICAL MALE WITH STROKE SIGN   ⚨ U+26A8 ⚨ Alchemical symbol for iron
NEUTER   ⚲ U+26B2 ⚲
MEDIUM WHITE CIRCLE   ⚪︎ U+26AA ⚪ Asexuality, sexless, genderless.[a]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Also used as equivalent to U+26AC MEDIUM SMALL WHITE CIRCLE (⚬) Engaged, betrothed (genealogy), wedding ring. Cf. also U+25CB WHITE CIRCLE (○), female in genealogies and pedigrees.

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Over the course of its history the LGBT community has adopted certain symbols for self identification to demonstrate unity pride shared values and allegiance to one another These symbols communicate ideas concepts and identity both within their communities and to mainstream culture The two symbols most recognized internationally are the pink triangle and the rainbow flag citation needed Contents 1 Letters and glyphs 1 1 Gender symbols 1 2 Lambda 2 Plants and animals 2 1 Lavender rhinoceros 2 2 Unicorns 3 Triangle badges of Nazi Germany 4 Other symbols 4 1 Asexual symbols 4 2 Freedom rings 4 3 Handkerchief code 4 4 High five 4 5 Purple hand 4 6 White Knot 5 Flags 6 Gallery 6 1 Symbols 6 2 Simple icons 6 3 Flags 6 4 Location based flags 7 Encoding 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 11 External linksLetters and glyphsGender symbols Further information on sex and gender symbols Gender symbol Sexual orientation and gender politics Lesbian and gay interlocked gender sex symbols The female and male gender symbols are derived from the astronomical symbols for the planets Venus and Mars respectively Following Linnaeus biologists use the planetary symbol for Venus to represent the female sex and the planetary symbol for Mars to represent the male sex Two interlocking female symbols represent a lesbian or the lesbian community and two interlocking male symbols a gay male or the gay male community 1 2 These symbols first appeared in the 1970s 2 The combined male female symbol is used to represent androgyne or transgender people and when additionally combined with the female and male symbols it indicates gender inclusivity though it is also used as a transgender symbol 3 4 Lambda In 1970 graphic designer Tom Doerr selected the lower case Greek letter lambda l to be the symbol of the New York chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance 5 6 The alliance s literature states that Doerr chose the symbol specifically for its denotative meaning in the context of chemistry and physics a complete exchange of energy that moment or span of time witness to absolute activity 5 The lambda became associated with Gay Liberation 7 8 and in December 1974 it was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh Scotland 9 The gay rights organization Lambda Legal and the American Lambda Literary Foundation derive their names from this symbol Plants and animalsSee also Language of flowers Green carnation Sweet flag plant In 19th century England green indicated homosexual affiliations as popularized by gay author Oscar Wilde who often wore a green carnation on his lapel 10 11 According to some interpretations American poet Walt Whitman used the sweet flag plant to represent homoerotic male love because of its phallic connotations 12 Roses have been associated with male love in both ancient Greece and modern Japan The term bara 薔薇 rose in Japanese has historically been used in Japan as a pejorative for men who love men roughly equivalent to the English language term pansy 13 14 40 Beginning in the 1960s the term was reappropriated by Japanese gay media notably with the 1961 anthology Ba ra kei Ordeal by Roses ja a collection of semi nude photographs of homosexual writer Yukio Mishima by photographer Eikoh Hosoe 14 34 and later with Barazoku 薔薇族 lit rose tribe in 1971 the first commercially produced gay magazine in Asia 15 The use of the rose as a prominent symbol of love between males is supposedly derived from the Greek myth of King Laius having affairs with boys under rose trees 16 Since the 2000s bara has been used by non Japanese audience as an umbrella term to describe a wide variety of Japanese and non Japanese gay media featuring love and sex between masculine men 17 The rose is also the sacred flower of Eros 18 the Greek god of love and sex and patron of love between men 19 Eros was responsible for the first rose to sprout on Earth followed by every flower and herb 20 Roses are a symbol of pederasty in ancient Greece handsome boys were metaphorically called roses by their male admirers in homoerotic poems such as those by Solon Straton Meleager Rhianus and Philostratos 21 Animals that lovers gave as gifts to their beloved also became symbols of pederastic love such as hares roosters deer felines and oxen as a metaphor for sexual pursuits 22 23 Violets symbol of Sapphic love Violets and their color became a special code used by lesbians and bisexual women 24 25 26 The symbolism of the flower derives from several fragments of poems by Sappho in which she describes a lover wearing garlands or a crown with violets 27 28 In 1926 the play La Prisonniere by Edouard Bourdet used a bouquet of violets to signify lesbian love 29 When the play became subject to censorship many Parisian lesbians wore violets to demonstrate solidarity with its lesbian subject matter 30 A white lily the de facto symbol of the yuri genre White lilies have been used since the Romantic era of Japanese literature to symbolize beauty and purity in women and are a de facto symbol of the yuri genre yuri 百合 translates literally to lily 31 which describes the portrayal of intimate love sex or emotional connections between women 32 The term Yurizoku 百合族 lit lily tribe was coined in 1976 by Bungaku Itō ja editor of the gay men s magazine Barazoku see above to refer to his female readers 33 34 While not all those women were lesbians and it is unclear whether this was the first instance of the term yuri in this context an association of yuri with lesbianism subsequently developed 35 In Korea and China lily is used as a semantic loan from the Japanese usage to describe female female romance media where each use the direct translation of the term baekhap 백합 in Korea 36 and bǎihe 百合 in China 37 Lavender rhinoceros See also Lavender Mafia A lavender rhinoceros a symbol used in 1970s Boston as a sign of gay visibility Daniel Thaxton and Bernie Toale created a lavender rhinoceros symbol for a public ad campaign to increase visibility for gay people in Boston helmed by Gay Media Action Advertising Toale said they chose a rhinoceros because it is a much maligned and misunderstood animal and that it was lavender because that is a mix of pink and blue making it a symbolic merger of the feminine and masculine However in May 1974 Metro Transit Advertising said its lawyers could not determine eligibility of the public service rate for the lavender rhinoceros ads which tripled the cost of the ad campaign Gay Media Action challenged this but were unsuccessful The lavender rhinoceros symbol was seen on signs pins and t shirts at the Boston Pride Parade later in 1974 and a life sized papier mache lavender rhinoceros was part of the parade Money was raised for the ads and they began running on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority s Green Line by December 3 1974 and ran there until February 1975 The lavender rhinoceros continued as a symbol of the gay community appearing at the 1976 Boston Pride Parade and on a flag that was raised at Boston City Hall in 1987 38 Unicorns See also Unicorn Pride festival attendee carrying an inflatable unicorn in Washington D C Unicorns have become a symbol of LGBT culture due to earlier associations between the animal and rainbows being extended to the rainbow flag created in 1978 by Gilbert Baker 39 Alice Fisher of The Guardian wrote in 2017 The unicorn has also done its bit for the LGBT community in the last century Rainbows and unicorns are so intrinsically linked the association is also a Victorian invention that it s unsurprising that the magic creature started to appear on T shirts and banners at Gay Pride around the world with slogans such as Gender is Imaginary or Totally Straight emblazoned under sparkling rainbow unicorns 40 Gay Star News has said unicorns are queer icons of our time 41 Triangle badges of Nazi GermanyMain articles Pink triangle and Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany One of the oldest of these symbols is the downward pointing pink triangle that male homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps were required to wear on their clothing The badge is one of several badges that internees wore to identify what kind of prisoners they were 42 Many of the estimated 5 000 15 000 gay men imprisoned in concentration camps did not survive 43 The pink triangle was later reclaimed by gay men as well as some lesbians in various political movements as a symbol of personal pride and remembrance 44 45 AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ACT UP adopted the downward pointing pink triangle to symbolize the active fight back against HIV AIDS rather than a passive resignation to fate 46 The pink triangle was used exclusively with male prisoners as lesbians were not included under Paragraph 175 a statute which made homosexual acts between males a crime 47 Lesbian sexual relations were illegal only in Austria and historians differ on whether they were persecuted or not due to lack of evidence 48 Some lesbians were imprisoned with a black triangle symbolizing supposed asociality this symbol was later reclaimed by postwar lesbians 45 Pink triangle Black triangle Pink and yellow triangles The downward pointing pink triangle used to identify homosexual men in the concentration camps The downward pointing black triangle used to mark individuals considered asocial The category included homosexual women nonconformists sex workers nomads Romani and others The downward pointing pink triangle overlapping a yellow triangle was used to single out male homosexual prisoners who were Jewish Other symbolsSymbols of the LGBT community have been used to represent members unity pride shared values and allegiance to one another Asexual symbols Ace ring The ace ring a black ring also known as an ace ring worn on the middle finger of one s right hand is a way asexual people signify their asexuality The ring is deliberately worn in a similar manner as one would a wedding ring to symbolize marriage Use of the symbol began in 2005 49 50 Ace playing cards due to the phonetic shortening from asexual to ace are sometimes used to represent asexuality The ace of hearts and ace of spades are used to symbolize romantic asexuality and aromantic asexuality respectively 51 Likewise the ace of clubs is used to symbolize gray asexuality and gray aromantics and the ace of diamonds is used to symbolize demi romantics and demisexuals 52 Freedom rings Freedom rings designed by David Spada and released in 1991 are six aluminum rings each in one of the colors of the rainbow flag Symbolizing happiness and diversity these rings are worn by themselves or as part of necklaces bracelets and key chains 53 They are sometimes referred to as Fruit Loops 54 Handkerchief code Main article Handkerchief code Handkerchiefs worn in back pockets communicate sexual interests In some New York City gay circles of the early 20th century gay men wore a red necktie or bow tie as a subtle signal 55 In the 1970s the handkerchief or hanky code emerged in the form of bandanas worn in back pockets in colors that signaled sexual interests fetishes and if the wearer was a top or bottom 56 57 High five There are many origin stories of the high five 58 but the two most documented candidates are Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke of the Los Angeles Dodgers professional baseball team on October 2 1977 and Wiley Brown and Derek Smith of the Louisville Cardinals men s basketball team during the 1978 1979 season 59 60 In any case after retiring from baseball Burke who was one of the first openly gay professional athletes used the high five with other gay residents of the Castro district of San Francisco where for many it became a symbol of gay pride and identification 59 Purple hand See also Lavender Mafia On October 31 1969 sixty members of the Gay Liberation Front the Committee for Homosexual Freedom CHF and the Gay Guerilla Theatre group staged a protest outside the offices of the San Francisco Examiner in response to a series of news articles disparaging people in San Francisco s gay bars and clubs 61 62 The peaceful protest against the Examiner turned tumultuous and was later called Friday of the Purple Hand and Bloody Friday of the Purple Hand 61 63 64 65 Examiner employees dumped a barrel of printers ink on the crowd from the roof of the newspaper building according to glbtq com 66 Some reports state that it was a barrel of ink poured from the roof of the building 67 The protestors used the ink to scrawl slogans on the building walls and slap purple hand prints throughout downtown San Francisco resulting in one of the most visible demonstrations of gay power according to the Bay Area Reporter 61 64 63 According to Larry LittleJohn then president of Society for Individual Rights At that point the tactical squad arrived not to get the employees who dumped the ink but to arrest the demonstrators Somebody could have been hurt if that ink had gotten into their eyes but the police were knocking people to the ground 61 The accounts of police brutality include women being thrown to the ground and protesters teeth being knocked out 61 68 Inspired by Black Hand extortion methods of Camorra gangsters and the Mafia 69 some gay and lesbian activists attempted to institute purple hand as a warning to stop anti gay attacks but with little success citation needed In Turkey the LGBT rights organization MorEl Eskisehir LGBTT Olusumu Purple Hand Eskisehir LGBT Formation also bears the name of this symbol 70 White Knot A White Knot The White Knot is a symbol of support for same sex marriage in the United States The White Knot combines two symbols of marriage the color white and tying the knot to represent support for same sex marriage 71 The White Knot has been worn publicly by many celebrities as a means of demonstrating solidarity with that cause 72 The White Knot was created by Frank Voci in November 2008 in response to the passage of Proposition 8 in California and bans on same sex marriage and denial of other civil rights for LGBT persons across the nation 73 Flags Created in 1978 the rainbow flag is the most commonly used pride flag 74 75 This paragraph is an excerpt from Pride flag edit A pride flag is any flag that represents a segment or part of the LGBT community Pride in this case refers to the notion of gay pride The terms LGBT flag and queer flag are often used interchangeably 76 Pride flags can represent various sexual orientations romantic orientations gender identities subcultures and regional purposes as well as the LGBT community as a whole There are also some pride flags that are not exclusively related to LGBT matters such as the flag for leather subculture The rainbow flag which represents the entire LGBT community is the most widely used pride flag GallerySymbols Biangles represents bisexuality Double moon represents bisexuality 77 Double female symbol represents lesbian women 1 Double male symbol represents gay men Interlocking gender symbols Interlocking gender symbols Four interlocking gender symbols Labrys represents lesbian feminism 1 78 79 Lambda represents gay liberation Pansexual symbol 80 Androgyne male female symbol the most common transgender symbol Pink amp blue transgender Transfeminist symbol Androgyne male female symbol identifying unisex inclusive restroom Male female and hijra public toilets in IndiaSimple icons Agender non binary a larger circle in genealogies means female 81 Androgyne no particular appearance gender queer gender neutral 81 sometimes distinguished androgyne female appearance 81 sometimes distinguished androgyne male appearance 81 Asexual 81 Bigender also androgyne agender etc in botany bisexual hermaphroditic 81 Bisexual 82 Bisexual female Bisexual male Bisexual Whitehead link 83 Demi boy 81 Demi girl 81 double crescent Gay male union 81 Gender fluid symbol of fluid quicksilver sometimes specifically androgyne female also non binary 81 Androgyne male 81 Heterosexual union 81 Intergender 81 Lesbian union 81 Neuter asexual neutral neutrois botany asexual reproduction zoology non reproducing e g worker bees 81 Non binary 81 Non binary glyph variant 81 Non binary comet contrasting with Venus for female and Mars for male 81 Other undefined gender transgender non binary gender fluid 81 Pansexual Rotating fluxuating gender expression 81 Trans female Trans male Transgender transsexual gender queer 81 gender inclusive male female and androgyne transgender 84 Flags This section is an excerpt from Pride flag Gallery edit Rainbow flag Agender 85 additional citation s needed Aromantic 86 Asexual Bear Bigender 87 Bisexual Demisexual 88 Gay men 89 90 Genderfluid 91 additional citation s needed Genderqueer 92 Intersex Leather Labrys lesbian lesbian feminist 93 94 Lipstick lesbian Illustration of original 93 Lesbian 95 Lesbian 2018 seven stripes 96 Lesbian 2018 five stripes 97 Non binary Pansexual Polyamory designed in 1995 98 additional citation s needed Polysexual 99 additional citation s needed Progressive pride Transgender Location based flags Wikimedia Commons has media related to LGBT pride flags by country Gay Jewish Pride Flag 100 101 Philadelphia United States People of color pride flag 102 additional citation s needed South Africa Gay pride flag of South Africa 103 additional citation s needed United Kingdom Pink Union Jack 104 additional citation s needed Canada Canadian Pride Flag 105 additional citation s needed EncodingThis table contains special characters Without proper rendering support you may see question marks boxes or other symbols For information on entering these symbols in a document see Unicode input The meanings given here are those formally associated with the symbol in Unicode They may be used with other meanings elsewhere See also Gender symbols Encoding Unicode name 106 symbol hex dec Associated wording 106 MERCURY U 263F amp 9791 IntersexualityDOUBLED FEMALE SIGN U 26A2 amp 9890 Female homosexualityDOUBLED MALE SIGN U 26A3 amp 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