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    pride, shared values, and allegiance to one another. These symbols communicate ideas, concepts, and identity both within their communities and to mainstream culture. The two symbols most recognized internationally are the pink triangle and the rainbow flag.[1][2][3]

    Letters and glyphs

    Gender symbols

    Further information on sex and gender symbols: Gender symbol § Sexual orientation and gender politics
    Lesbian and gay male interlocked gender sex symbols

    The female and male gender symbols are derived from the astronomical symbols for the planets Venus and Mars respectively. Following Linnaeus, biologists use the planetary symbol for Venus to represent the female sex, and the planetary symbol for Mars to represent the male sex.

    Two interlocking female symbols (⚢) represent a lesbian or the lesbian community, and two interlocking male symbols (⚣) a gay male or the gay male community.[4][5] These symbols first appeared in the 1970s.[5]

    The combined male-female symbol (⚦) is used to represent

    androgyne or transgender people; when additionally combined with the female (♀) and male (♂) symbols (⚧) it indicates gender inclusivity, though it is also used as a transgender symbol.[6][7]

    Lambda

    Lower-case lambda

    In 1970, graphic designer Tom Doerr selected the lower-case Greek letter lambda (λ) to be the symbol of the New York chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance.[8][9] The alliance's literature states that Doerr chose the symbol specifically for its denotative meaning in the context of chemistry and physics: "a complete exchange of energy–that moment or span of time witness to absolute activity".[8]

    The lambda became associated with

    Gay Liberation,[10][11] and in December 1974, it was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.[12] The gay rights organization Lambda Legal and the American Lambda Literary Foundation
    derive their names from this symbol.

    Plants and animals

    See also: Language of flowers
    Green carnation
    Sweet flag plant

    In

    phallic connotations.[15]

    Roses
    have been associated with male love in both ancient Greece and modern Japan.

    The term bara (薔薇), "

    Philostratos.[24]

    Animals that lovers gave as gifts to their beloved also became symbols of pederastic love, such as

    oxen, as a metaphor for sexual pursuits.[25][26]

    Violets, symbol of Sapphic love.

    Violets and their color became a special code used by lesbians and bisexual women.[27][28][29] The symbolism of the flower derives from several fragments of poems by Sappho in which she describes a lover wearing garlands or a crown with violets.[30][31] In 1926, the play La Prisonnière by Édouard Bourdet used a bouquet of violets to signify lesbian love.[32] When the play became subject to censorship, many Parisian lesbians wore violets to demonstrate solidarity with its lesbian subject matter.[33]

    A white lily, the de facto symbol of the yuri genre

    White lilies have been used since the Romantic era of Japanese literature to symbolize beauty and purity in women, and are a de facto symbol of the yuri genre (yuri (百合) translates literally to "lily"),[34] which describes the portrayal of intimate love, sex, or emotional connections between women.[35] The term Yurizoku (百合族, lit. "lily tribe") was coined in 1976 by Ito Bungaku, editor of the gay men's magazine Barazoku (see above), to refer to his female readers.[36][37] While not all those women were lesbians, and it is unclear whether this was the first instance of the term yuri in this context, an association of yuri with lesbianism subsequently developed.[38] In Korea and China, "lily" is used as a semantic loan from the Japanese usage to describe female-female romance media, where each use the direct translation of the term – baekhap (백합) in Korea[39] and bǎihé (百合) in China.[40]

    Lavender rhinoceros

    See also:
    Lavender Mafia
    A lavender rhinoceros, a symbol used in 1970s Boston as a sign of gay visibility.

    Daniel Thaxton and Bernie Toale created a lavender rhinoceros symbol for a public ad campaign to increase visibility for gay people in Boston helmed by Gay Media Action-Advertising; Toale said they chose a rhinoceros because "it is a much maligned and misunderstood animal" and that it was lavender because that is a mix of pink and blue, making it a symbolic merger of the feminine and masculine. However, in May 1974, Metro Transit Advertising said its lawyers could not "determine eligibility of the public service rate" for the lavender rhinoceros ads, which tripled the cost of the ad campaign. Gay Media Action challenged this but were unsuccessful. The lavender rhinoceros symbol was seen on signs, pins, and t-shirts at the Boston Pride Parade later in 1974, and a life-sized papier-mâché lavender rhinoceros was part of the parade. Money was raised for the ads, and they began running on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Green Line by December 3, 1974, and ran there until February 1975. The lavender rhinoceros continued as a symbol of the gay community, appearing at the 1976 Boston Pride Parade and on a flag that was raised at Boston City Hall in 1987.[41]

    Unicorns

    See also: Unicorn
    Pride festival attendee carrying an inflatable unicorn in Washington, D.C.

    Unicorns have become a symbol of LGBT culture due to earlier associations between the animal and rainbows being extended to the rainbow flag created in 1978 by Gilbert Baker.[42]

    Alice Fisher of The Guardian wrote in 2017, "The unicorn has also done its bit for the LGBT community in the last century... Rainbows and unicorns are so intrinsically linked (the association is also a Victorian invention) that it's unsurprising that the magic creature started to appear on T-shirts and banners at Gay Pride around the world, with slogans such as 'Gender is Imaginary' or 'Totally Straight' emblazoned under sparkling rainbow unicorns."[43]

    Gay Star News has said unicorns are "queer icons of our time".[44]

    Blåhaj

    See also: Blåhaj § As cultural phenomenon

    The IKEA plush toy shark Blåhaj is commonly associated with LGBT culture, in particular the transgender community, in part due to being colored similarly to the transgender pride flag.[45] Early origins of this are traced back to around 2020 and in 2021 IKEA ran an ad-campaign to support same-sex marriage in Switzerland featuring the shark.[46]

    In response to this popularity, IKEA Canada hosted a giveaway in November 2022, offering transgender people a special edition Blåhaj in the colors of the transgender pride flag, with the winner's name embroidered on its fin.[47]

    Other symbols

    Symbols of the LGBT community have been used to represent members' unity, pride, shared values, and allegiance to one another.

    Asexual and aromantic symbols

    Ace ring, worn on the right middle finger.

    The ace ring, a black ring worn on the middle finger of one's right hand, is a way asexual people signify their asexuality. The ring is deliberately worn in a similar manner as one would a wedding ring to symbolize marriage. Use of the symbol began in 2005.[48][49]

    Aro ring, worn on the left middle finger.

    The aro ring, a white ring, worn on the middle finger on one's left hand is a way

    aromantic people signify their identity on the aromantic spectrum. Use of the symbol began in 2015.[50]
    This was chosen as the opposite of the ace ring which is a black ring worn on the right hand.[51]

    demiromanticism and demisexuality.[53]

    A pin depicting an arrow with the fletching representing the Aromantic Pride flag colors

    Another symbol often used by aromantic people is arrows or an arrow as the word arrow is a homophone to the shortened word aro used by aromantic people to refer to themselves.[54]

    Biangles

    The biangles symbol of bisexuality, designed by artist Liz Nania

    The biangles symbol of bisexuality was designed by artist Liz Nania as she co-organized a bisexual contingent for the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1987.[55][56] The design of the biangles began with the pink triangle, a Nazi concentration camp badge that later became a symbol of gay liberation representing homosexuality. The addition of a blue triangle contrasts the pink and represents heterosexuality. The two triangles overlap and form lavender, which represents the "queerness of bisexuality", referencing the Lavender Menace and similar organizations associated with the color.[57]

    Michael Page stated that when designing the bisexual flag he took the colors and overlap from the biangles.[58]

    Double crescent moon

    The double crescent moon bisexuality symbol, designed by Vivian Wagner

    Some bisexual individuals object to the use of a pink triangle in the biangles symbol of bisexuality (see above), as it was a symbol that Adolf Hitler's regime used to tag and persecute homosexuals. In response, a double crescent moon symbol of bisexuality was devised by Vivian Wagner in 1998.[59][60] This symbol is common in Germany and surrounding countries.[60]

    Freedom Rings

    Freedom Rings, designed by David Spada in 1991, are six aluminum rings, each in one of the colors of the rainbow flag. Symbolizing happiness and diversity, these rings are worn by themselves or as part of necklaces, bracelets, and key chains.[61] They are sometimes referred to as "Fruit Loops".[62]

    Handkerchief code

    Main article: Handkerchief code
    Handkerchiefs worn in back pockets can communicate sexual interests

    In the 1970s, the modern handkerchief (or hanky) code emerged in the form of

    "top" or "bottom".[63][64] It was popular among the gay leather community of the United States[65] and the cruising scene
    more broadly.

    High five

    There are many origin stories of the

    gay pride and identification.[67]

    Purple hand

    See also:
    Lavender Mafia

    On October 31, 1969, sixty members of the

    Society for Individual Rights, "At that point, the tactical squad arrived – not to get the employees who dumped the ink, but to arrest the demonstrators. Somebody could have been hurt if that ink had gotten into their eyes, but the police were knocking people to the ground."[69] The accounts of police brutality include women being thrown to the ground and protesters' teeth being knocked out.[69][76] Inspired by Black Hand extortion methods of Camorra gangsters and the Mafia,[77] some gay and lesbian activists attempted to institute "purple hand" as a symbol against anti-gay attacks, but the symbol was only briefly used.[78][79] In Turkey, the LGBT rights organization MorEl Eskişehir LGBTT Oluşumu (Purple Hand Eskişehir LGBT Formation), also bears the name of this symbol.[80]

    White knot

    A white knot

    The white knot is a symbol of support for same-sex marriage in the United States. The white knot combines two symbols of marriage, the color white and "tying the knot," to represent support for same-sex marriage.[81] The White Knot has been worn publicly by many celebrities as a means of demonstrating solidarity with that cause.[82]

    The white knot was created by Frank Voci in November 2008, in response to the passage of

    civil rights for LGBT persons across the nation.[83]

    Triangle badges of Nazi Germany

    Main articles: Pink triangle and Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany

    One of the oldest of these symbols is the downward-pointing

    AIDS "rather than a passive resignation to fate."[88]

    The pink triangle was used exclusively with male prisoners, including transfeminine individuals, as cisgender lesbians were not included under Paragraph 175, a statute which made homosexual acts between males a crime.[89] Lesbian sexual relations were illegal only in Austria and historians differ on whether they were persecuted or not, due to lack of evidence.[90] Some lesbians were imprisoned with a black triangle symbolizing supposed "asociality", this symbol was later reclaimed by postwar lesbians.[87]

    Pink triangle Black triangle Pink and yellow triangles
    The downward-pointing pink triangle used to identify homosexual men and transgender women in the concentration camps. The downward-pointing black triangle used to mark individuals considered "asocial". The category included homosexual women, nonconformists, sex workers, nomads, Romani, and others. The downward-pointing pink triangle overlapping a yellow triangle was used to single out male homosexual prisoners who were
    Jewish
    .

    Flags

    Created in 1978, the rainbow flag is the most commonly used pride flag.[91][92]
    A rainbow flag flying.
    This paragraph is an excerpt from Pride flag.[edit]

    A pride flag is any flag that represents a segment or part of the LGBT community. Pride in this case refers to the notion of LGBT pride. The terms LGBT flag and queer flag are often used interchangeably.[93]

    Pride flags can represent various sexual orientations, romantic orientations, gender identities, subcultures, and regional purposes, as well as the LGBT community as a whole. There are also some pride flags that are not exclusively related to LGBT matters, such as the flag for leather subculture. The rainbow flag, which represents the entire LGBT community, is the most widely used pride flag.

    Numerous communities have embraced distinct flags, with a majority drawing inspiration from the rainbow flag. These flags are often created by amateur designers and later gain traction online or within affiliated organizations, ultimately attaining a semi-official status as a symbolic representation of the community. Typically, these flags incorporate a range of colors that symbolize different aspects of the associated communities.

    Gallery

    Symbols

    Simple icons

    • Agender, non-binary (a larger circle in genealogies means 'female')[98]
      non-binary
      (a larger circle in genealogies means 'female')[98]
    • Androgyne (no particular appearance), gender-queer, gender-neutral[98]
      gender-queer, gender-neutral[98]
    • sometimes distinguished: androgyne (female appearance)[98]
      sometimes distinguished:
      androgyne (female appearance)[98]
    • sometimes distinguished: androgyne (male appearance)[98]
      sometimes distinguished:
      androgyne (male appearance)[98]
    • Asexual[98]
      Asexual[98]
    • Bigender (also androgyne, agender, etc.); in botany: bisexual / hermaphroditic[98]
      bisexual / hermaphroditic[98]
    • Bisexual[99]
      Bisexual[99]
    • Bisexual (female)
      Bisexual (female)
    • Bisexual (male)
      Bisexual (male)
    • Bisexual (Whitehead link)[100]
      Bisexual (Whitehead link)[100]
    • Demi-boy[98]
      Demi-boy[98]
    • Demi-girl[98]
      Demi-girl[98]
    • double crescent
      double crescent
    • Gay (male) union[98]
      Gay (male) union[98]
    • Gender-fluid (symbol of fluid quicksilver); sometimes specifically androgyne female; also non-binary[98]
      quicksilver); sometimes specifically androgyne female; also non-binary[98]
    • Androgyne male[98]
      Androgyne male[98]
    • Heterosexual union[98]
      Heterosexual union[98]
    • Intergender[98]
      Intergender[98]
    • Lesbian union[98]
      Lesbian union[98]
    • Neuter (asexual, neutral, neutrois); botany: asexual reproduction; zoology: non-reproducing (e.g. worker bees)[98]
      Neuter (
      neutrois); botany: asexual reproduction; zoology: non-reproducing (e.g. worker bees)[98]
    • Non-binary[98]
      Non-binary[98]
    • Non-binary (glyph variant)[98]
      Non-binary (glyph variant)[98]
    • Non-binary (comet, contrasting with Venus for female and Mars for male)[98]
      Non-binary (comet, contrasting with Venus for female and Mars for male)[98]
    • Other/undefined gender (transgender, non-binary, gender-fluid)[98]
      Other/undefined gender (transgender, non-binary, gender-fluid)[98]
    • Pansexual
      Pansexual
    • Rotating / fluxuating gender expression[98]
      Rotating / fluxuating gender expression[98]
    • Transgender, transsexual, gender-queer;[98] gender inclusive (male, female and androgyne / transgender)[101]
      Transgender, transsexual, gender-queer;[98] gender inclusive (male, female and androgyne / transgender)[101]

    Flags

    This section is an excerpt from Pride flag § Gallery.[edit]

    Sexual orientation–based flags

    Romantic attraction–based flags

    Gender identity–based flags

    Other flags

    Location-based flags

    Encoding

    This table contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols.
    For information on entering these symbols in a document, see Unicode input.
    The meanings given here are those formally associated with the symbol in Unicode. They may be used with other meanings elsewhere. See also
    Gender symbols#Encoding
    .
    Unicode name[146] symbol hex dec Associated wording[146]
    MERCURY ☿ U+263F ☿ Intersexuality
    DOUBLED FEMALE SIGN ⚢ U+26A2 ⚢ Female homosexuality
    DOUBLED MALE SIGN ⚣ U+26A3 ⚣ Male homosexuality
    INTERLOCKED MALE AND FEMALE SIGN ⚤ U+26A4 ⚤ Heterosexuality
    MALE AND FEMALE SIGN ⚥ U+26A5 ⚥ Intersex, androgynous
    MALE WITH STROKE SIGN ⚦ U+26A6 ⚦ Transgender
    MALE WITH STROKE AND MALE AND FEMALE SIGN ⚧ U+26A7 ⚧ Transgender
    VERTICAL MALE WITH STROKE SIGN ⚨ U+26A8 ⚨
    NEUTER ⚲ U+26B2 ⚲
    MEDIUM WHITE CIRCLE ⚪︎ U+26AA ⚪ Asexuality, sexless, genderless.[a]

    Many of these symbols have unrelated meanings in other fields, notably as

    planetary symbols
    .

    See also

    Notes

    1. ^ Also used as equivalent to U+26AC MEDIUM SMALL WHITE CIRCLE (⚬) Engaged, betrothed (genealogy), wedding ring. Cf. also U+25CB WHITE CIRCLE (○), female in genealogies and pedigrees.

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