Pink triangle and the LGBT rights movement. In Nazi concentration camps, each prisoner was required to wear a downward-pointing, equilateral triangular cloth badge on their chest, the color of which identified the reason for their imprisonment. Early on, homosexual male prisoners were variously identified with a green triangle (indicating criminals) or red triangle (political prisoners), the number "175" (referring to Paragraph 175, the section of the German penal code criminalizing homosexual activity), or the letter "A" (which stood for "Arschficker", literally "ass fucker"). Later, the use of a pink triangle was established for prisoners identified as homosexual men, which also included bisexual
Pink Triangle Press Pink Triangle Press Pink Triangle Press is a Canadian organization which specializes in LGBT media including publishing, online interactive media, and television. PTP's main asset is the LGBT news website "Daily Xtra", a continuation of the company's former print titles. The company's headquarters are located in Toronto near the Church-Wellesley Village. Pink Triangle Press' roots trace back to 1971 (although not in name) in Toronto, when a group of volunteers began to produce "The Body Politic", a paper containing news and opinions on gay liberation. By 1976 "TBP" was being published monthly, and in the early 1980s it claimed a