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
LGBT symbols subject to censorship, many Parisian lesbians wore violets to demonstrate solidarity with its lesbian subject matter. One of the oldest of these symbols is the inverted pink triangle that male homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps were required to wear on their clothing. The badge is one of several badges that internees wore to identify what kind of prisoners they were. Many of the estimated 5–15,000 gay men and lesbians imprisoned in concentration camps died during the Holocaust. The pink triangle was later reclaimed by gay men, as well as some lesbians, in various political movements as a symbol of personal