Pink Because of this, the pink triangle has become a symbol of the modern gay rights movement. The transition to pink as a sexually differentiating color for girls occurred gradually, through the selective process of the marketplace, in the 1930s and 40s. In the 1920s, some groups had been describing pink as a masculine color, an equivalent of the red that was considered to be for men, but lighter for boys. But stores nonetheless found that people were increasingly choosing to buy pink for girls, and blue for boys, until this became an accepted norm in the 1940s. In optics, the
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