Pink triangle identity, and was incorporated into the logos of such organizations and businesses. It was also used by individuals, sometimes discretely or ambiguously as an "insider" code unfamiliar to the general public. The logo for the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a silhouette of the US Capitol Dome superimposed over a pink triangle. Taking a more militant tone, the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) was formed by six gay activists in New York City in 1987, and to draw attention to the disease's disproportionate impact on gay and bisexual men, and the apparent role
Pink tide movement as well. Some pink tide governments, such as those of Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, have been varyingly characterized as being anti-American, populist and authoritarian-leaning. The pink tide was followed by the conservative wave, a political phenomenon that emerged in mid-2010 in South America as a direct reaction to the pink tide and the victory of what has been described as far-right candidates in Paraguay, Honduras and Brazil, something referred by some analysts as a possible "brown tide" (in reference to the colour brown, normally associated with fascism). During the Cold War, a series of left-leaning governments attained power via