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
International Movement Writing Alphabet 01-01-001-01-01-01). There are eight categories: hand, movement, face, head, upper body, full body, space, and punctuation. There are 40 groups. The are based on the 40 groups. The IMWA was originally designed for describing sign language and consequently was named "Sutton's Sign Symbol Sequence" (SSS) by its inventor, Valerie Sutton. The original symbol set, SSS-95, was limited in size due to memory constraints in personal computers at the time. The SSS-99 symbol set expanded the number of symbols, and the SSS-2002 set was the first to use the current identification numbering system. The final version, SSS-2004, was renamed "International Movement