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
David Gwinnutt led him to create the Pink Jack. A simple change to the Union Jack, the Pink Jack has the blue triangle shaped areas, in pink. The pink triangle was a symbol of oppression used by the Nazis to identify homosexuals. It was later reclaimed by gay men as a badge of honour and became a recognised LGBT symbol. Gwinnutt's first experiments with the design were in 1999 but he officially launched it at Europride in London 2006. The design was an instant hit and caught the mood in the UK at the time which was acknowledging equal rights for gay