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
Black triangle (badge) and Sinti people, and others. Many black triangle prisoners were mentally disabled or mentally ill. Nazis considered homosexual women asocial and a threat to German society, and the badge was used to identify them. In the 1970s, the black triangle was first used as a symbol of pride and solidarity by lesbians in the United Kingdom; and its symbolic use was introduced in North America through the "women's peace camp movement". It has also been adopted in remembrance of lesbians who suffered and died at the hands of Nazis. Some lesbians wear it for "historical precision". Some UK groups concerned