Black triangle

An inverted black triangle has two unrelated meanings:

Public Health

In the UK, the inverted black triangle is used to indicate a medicine under intense scrutiny.

External link

• Brief description of the black triangle scheme for medicines under intense surveillance.

Gender and Sexuality

An inverted black triangle is a lesbian or feminist symbol of pride and solidarity. It originates from Nazi Germany, where it was one of a number of inverted triangle insignia used in concentration camps to designate different prisoner catagories. The black triangle denoted, as well as vagrants and Gypsies, women considered 'anti-social' (i.e., a threat to Nazi family values) such as lesbians and prostitutes. As a symbol of lesbian pride it is considered the female counterpart to the pink triangle, which was a symbol for gay men.

See also homosexuals in Nazi Germany, rainbow flag.

External link

• A short explanation of the origin of pink and other queer triangles

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