Pink Pistols overhead view of a picto-person aiming a handgun in an isosceles stance superimposed on a pink triangle. The pink triangle, now a gay pride and gay rights symbol, was originally a badge that homosexual concentration camp victims were forced to wear during the Holocaust. According to spokesperson Gwen Patton, "We don't want people to hurt us, we want people to run away from us, and the best way we have found to do that is to be armed." Patton has also stated that, "the Pink Pistols tend to get a better response from firearms supporters than from homosexuals". The group's
Triangle Theater Company half-dozen people who wanted to start a gay theater. The result was the Triangle Theater Company. Hough decided to name the company after the symbol used to designate homosexual men in Nazi concentration camps, mainly because the pink triangle was not publicly recognized as a gay symbol. When created, the Triangle Theater was and remained for several years the only gay-identified theater in Boston. Although its first year was rather slow (only four people auditioned for a six-person show), within a few years, the Triangle Theater became a success with 200 actors regularly turning up for auditions. In 1987, when