Pink triangle and the LGBT rights movement. In Nazi concentration camps, each prisoner was required to wear a downward-pointing, equilateral triangular cloth badge on their chest, the color of which identified the reason for their imprisonment. Early on, homosexual male prisoners were variously identified with a green triangle (indicating criminals) or red triangle (political prisoners), the number "175" (referring to Paragraph 175, the section of the German penal code criminalizing homosexual activity), or the letter "A" (which stood for "Arschficker", literally "ass fucker"). Later, the use of a pink triangle was established for prisoners identified as homosexual men, which also included bisexual
Pink Triangle (song) life with until he saw a pink triangle—a gay pride symbol—on her backpack. (According to Cuomo, a year and a half after the album was released he discovered that the woman was actually not a lesbian and had just been showing support for the gay community.) A promo single was sent to radio stations that also contained an acoustic version of the song recorded at Shorecrest High School in Seattle, Washington. The song received limited airplay and never charted and thus was deemed not to warrant a video. It is the band's least successful single thus far. In 2004, the