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 Frank N. Furter wears a pink triangle badge on one of his outfits. In 1976, Peter Recht, Detlef Stoffel, and Christiane Schmerl made the German documentary "Rosa Winkel? Das ist doch schon lange vorbei..." ("Pink Triangle? That was such a long time ago..."). Publications such as San Francisco's "Gay Sunshine" and Toronto's "The Body Politic" promoted the pink triangle as a memorial to those who had been persecuted. In the 1980s, the pink triangle was increasingly used not just as a memorial but as a positive symbol of both self and community identity. It commonly represented both gay and lesbian