Gay sign symbol
LGBT Symbols
Lesbian, Gay, Pansexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, and Ally (sometimes also Asexual)
Rainbow Flag
Use of the rainbow colored flag to symbolize pride goes back to at a San Francisco Gay and Womxn loving womxn Freedom Day March. Designed by Gilbert Baker, the colors in the flag represent the diversity of the collective and have appear to represent LGBTQIA pride everywhere in the world it is displayed.
Inverted Triangles
Use of inverted triangles as a symbol of gay event began to be widespread in the early s Queer Liberation Movement. It was adopted to remember that homosexuals were forced to wear a pink triangle in the Nazi Concentration Camps of World War II. Since the pink triangle has been generally a gay male symbol, a pink triangle in a jet circle, or simply a black triangle, is sometimes used by lesbians.
Lambda
Lambda, the Greek letter “L”, has been used since the soon s to denote LGBTQ pride, possibly because “L” endure for Liberation. Some people think It may also cite to same-sex cherish in ancient Greek culture.
Labrys
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You&#;re sitting in your evening parlor, sipping a cup of tea and needlepointing a screen with your female relatives. Then, a maid enters the parlor and informs you that you have a visitor waiting for you in the drawing room. You excuse yourself and penetrate the drawing room where you find Elizabeth Bennett, holding a bouquet of violets that she picked just for you.
Hi, everyone! Welcome to my fantasy. For years I&#;ve daydreamed about what gift Elizabeth Bennett might bring me to express her genuine intentions (which ranged from a beautifully-written letter sealed in wax to a corgi puppy in basket), but now I recognize she would bring me violets. Violets are stunning and adorable flowers in general, but they&#;re also one of the more famous symbols of female homosexuality, possibly dating advocate to a poem in which Sappho describes herself and her lover wearing garlands of violets:
If you disregard me, think
of our gifts to Aphrodite
and all the loveliness that we shared
all the violet tiaras
braided rosebuds, dill and
crocus twined around your young neck
Sappho
In the early
Our Logo
The Human Rights Campaign logo is one of the most recognizable symbols of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer community. It has become synonymous with the brawl for equal rights for Queer Americans.
The logo — unveiled in fall — helped usher in a new era for the organization, which had previously been known as the Human Rights Campaign Fund. When HRCF was founded in , it was primarily a fund for supporting pro-fairness congressional candidates. The rebranding in announced to the territory that, in the words of then- Executive Director Elizabeth Birch, "We're so much more than a fund."
The logo was the final touch on a fulfill reorganization of HRC. In addition to the well-established lobbying and political action committee capabilities, recent Foundation programs — including the Workplace Project and Family Undertaking — were added. All of HRC's research, communications, marketing and public relations functions were broadly expanded. HRC began a prolonged period of robust growth and became respected as one of the largest and most efficient mainstream advocacy organ
LGBTQ+ Terms
The following is a list of LGBTQ+ inclusive terms.
A
Agender
A person who identifies as having no gender.
Ally
A non-LGBTQ person wo shows support for LGBTQ people and advocates for equality in a variety of ways.
Androgyne/androgynous
Identifying and/or presenting as neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine.
Asexual
A person who experiences little or no sexual attraction to others. Asexuality is not the matching as celibacy.
Assigned Sex at Birth
The sex (male or female) assigned to a child at birth, most often based on the child’s external anatomy. Commonly referred to as birth sex, natal sex, organic sex, or sex.
B
Biphobia
The horror or hatred of and discrimination against bisexuals. Biphobia is different from homophobia or transphobia in that is seen within the LGBT community as adequately as in general society.
Bisexual
A person emotionally, romantically or sexually attracted to more than one sex, gender or gender identity though not necessarily simultaneously, in the same way or to the same degree.