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
Pink tide movement as well. Some pink tide governments, such as those of Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, have been varyingly characterized as being anti-American, populist and authoritarian-leaning. The pink tide was followed by the conservative wave, a political phenomenon that emerged in mid-2010 in South America as a direct reaction to the pink tide and the victory of what has been described as far-right candidates in Paraguay, Honduras and Brazil, something referred by some analysts as a possible "brown tide" (in reference to the colour brown, normally associated with fascism). During the Cold War, a series of left-leaning governments attained power via