“It had a really horrible, negative origin about murder and Holocaust.”
It was put on us,” Baker told In the Life Media in 2009. The pink triangle has been used by some LGBTQ organizations, such as Act Up (which was founded during the early HIV/AIDS crisis), in an attempt to reclaim it from its terrible origins.īut not everyone is comfortable with it. This was the symbol that the Nazis used to mark people who were sent to concentration camps for their homosexuality and other supposed sexual deviancy. The flag was meant to replace an earlier symbol for gay people with horrific roots: the pink triangle. So how did Baker come up with the flag, and what does it mean, anyway? Google’s timing is notable: Not only is it LGBTQ Pride Month, but Baker died earlier this year, on March 31. This Friday’s Google Doodle is honoring Gilbert Baker’s 66th birthday.īaker is someone most people likely aren’t familiar with, even though they’ve probably seen his work many, many times - particularly in the next 28 days as the world celebrates LGBTQ Pride Month.
