Dapper Gay Pin
For the sharp, well-dressed gay in your life, which might be you! Designed by DAPPER DAY founder Justin J. PRODUCT DETAILS: Gold finished metal, 1" wide, 1 back post with rubber backer. Fabricated in China. As festive as it may appear, the bright pink triangle we associate with LGBT+ culture today was born from a horrific time. The symbol began with WWII when the Nazi party developed a system of color-coded labels for people they imprisoned. (Brown triangles were used for Romani people, red for political prisoners, green for criminals, blue for immigrants, purple for Jehovah's Witnesses and black for "asocial" people, including prostitutes and lesbians. Jews were assigned yellow triangles, sometimes overlapping with another to create the Star of David.) Homosexuality was technically made illegal in Germany long before Hitler, in 1871 with Paragraph 175, a clause in German law prohibiting homosexual relations, but it was rarely enforced until after Germans elected the Nazi Party to po