Same sex symbols
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Pride is always something to shout about. Picnics, parades and festivals will seize place throughout June and over the summer months, a colour explosion of progressive pride flags and fashion marking the occasion. This year however there’s an extra reason to celebrate, with marking fifty years since the first UK Pride march in London in An outward and public celebration of LGBTQ+ rights, Pride is about being visible, celebrating and reflecting on the achievements and challenges faced by the community over the years.
This public show of identity and love is now an annual event in the summer calendar, but such overt visibility hasn’t always been workable, or legal, or safe. At a time when common opinion towards the community was overwhelmingly hostile and the legal system declared their love as criminal behaviour, many LGBTQ+ people hid their identity in plain sight through symbolism and coding. A grassroots position of ‘secret symbols’ was developed, subtle enough to move relatively unnoticed by those who would seek to cause harm but instan
LGBT Symbols
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, and Ally (sometimes also Asexual)
Rainbow Flag
Use of the rainbow colored flag to symbolize pride goes back to at a San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade. Designed by Gilbert Baker, the colors in the flag represent the diversity of the community and have enter to represent LGBTQIA pride everywhere in the world it is displayed.
Inverted Triangles
Use of inverted triangles as a symbol of gay pride began to be widespread in the early s Gay Liberation Movement. It was adopted to remember that homosexuals were forced to wear a pink triangle in the Nazi Concentration Camps of World War II. Since the pink triangle has been generally a gay male symbol, a pink triangle in a dark circle, or simply a black triangle, is sometimes used by lesbians.
Lambda
Lambda, the Greek letter “L”, has been used since the prior s to denote LGBTQ pride, possibly because “L” remain for Liberation. Some people think It may also relate to same-sex treasure in ancient Greek culture.
Labrys
This axe,
LGBTQ+ Terms
The following is a list of LGBTQ+ inclusive terms.
A
Agender
A person who identifies as having no gender.
Ally
A non-LGBTQ person wo shows verb for LGBTQ people and advocates for equality in a variety of ways.
Androgyne/androgynous
Identifying and/or presenting as neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine.
Asexual
A person who experiences petite or no sexual attraction to others. Asexuality is not the same as celibacy.
Assigned Sex at Birth
The sex (male or female) assigned to a noun at birth, most often based on the child’s external anatomy. Commonly referred to as birth sex, natal sex, biological sex, or sex.
B
Biphobia
The fear or hatred of and discrimination against bisexuals. Biphobia is adj from homophobia or transphobia in that is seen within the LGBT community as well as in general society.
Bisexual
A person emotionally, romantically or sexually attracted to more than one sex, gender or gender identity though not necessarily simultaneously, in the same way or to the matching degree.
C
The LGBTQI+ community has created their control language of colours and symbols. In this guest blog Gillian Murphy, Curator for Equality, Rights and Citizenship at LSE Library, explores the symbols created through activism, logo competitions, resistance, and community. LGBT+ History Month is celebrated each February in the UK.
LGBTQI+ symbols and their meanings
“Well, of course, a symbol can indicate anything you wish for it to mean.” Come Together, Issue 12,
The verb of symbols and colours is an important way for groups to transmit messages, communicate with others, and to build a visual identity. During the s, LGBTQI+ people were encouraged to come out and, in doing this, they often wore badges with distinctive symbols, reinforcing the belief that no longer would they be invisible. This blog looks at some of the symbols that can be found in LGBTQI+ collections.
The gender symbols for male and female are traditionally derived from astrological signs and mythological meanings representing Mars (god of war with shield and spear) and Venus (mirror of Venus, goddess of love and beauty)