In our slightly belated second Pride episode, Larkin discusses the dark history behind the pink triangle, a symbol of activism in the LGBTQIA+ community. Once used by the Nazis to identify gay male prisoners in concentration camps, the symbol was reclaimed in the 80s and used as a call to action during the AIDS crisis. Listen and learn about queer trailblazer Magnus Hirschfeld, which member of Hitler’s regime was openly gay, and Kate’s one red flag about Colin Hanks (slightly off-topic but cut us some slack).

TW: Violence and SA, particularly directed at the LGBTQIA+ community

Nothing in this podcast should be considered legal advice. 

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References

https://www.holocausthistoricalsociety.org.uk/contents/germanbiographies/ernstrohm.html

https://www.history.com/articles/pink-triangle-nazi-concentration-camps

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-men-with-the-pink-triangle

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/the-men-with-the-pink-triangle-heinz-heger

https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/chart-of-prisoner-markings

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/dachau

https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/jacket/themes/dehumanization-categorization/

https://eguide.arolsen-archives.org/fileadmin/eguide-website/downloads/Haftarten_engl.pdf

https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/student_scholarship/article/1985/&path_info=Homosexuality_during_the_Transition_from_the_Weimar_Republic_to_the_Third_Reich.pdf

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/brief-history-paragraph-175-germany

https://hsp.org/blogs/fondly-pennsylvania/karl-heinrich-ulrichs

https://www.history.com/articles/oscar-wilde-trial

https://www.timesofisrael.com/100-years-ago-germanys-einstein-of-sex-began-the-gay-rights-movement/

https://www.nycaidsmemorial.org/timeline

https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/silence-equals-death-the-early-fight-against-the-aids-epidemic

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/news/homosexual-victims-of-nazi-persecution

https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/act-up-and-the-aids-crisis/sources/1263

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