Just like birthdays, anniversaries, or a graduation; it is a loving tradition and always appropriate to bring a gift for a coming-out party. This can be a really big step for any man or woman when they decide it is time to come forward to friends and family and reveal that they are gay. Give your loved one a strong show of support by gifting them with a crystal rainbow mobile.
Such a beautiful gift makes a delightful home accent for anyone. However, the symbolism of rainbows has special significance to GBLT communities. Not everyone realizes just how many homosexuals were sent to Nazi death camps during World War II.
Most are familiar with the Star of David which those of the Jewish race were forced to wear during the Nazi occupation. However, not everyone is familiar with the upside down pink triangle gay men, as well as male officers of the Catholic church, were forced to wear. Even some within the gay community are not aware that Catholic nuns, as well as lesbians, were forced to wear the upside-down black triangle.
Homosexuals have been demonized and labeled an abomination by just about every fundamentalist type cultish organization, including the Nazi Party. There are some moderate and even liberal religious people who do not judge the gay lifestyle harshly, but those people are few and far between. For now the United States remains entrenched in a completely irrelevant debate about the so-called sanctity of marriage due to fundamentalist views being pushed on others.
Due to the fact that being gay was viewed as a deviation from what was regarded as healthy and normal for adults, they were labeled and lost any status that their so-called racial purity might have afforded them. They were committed to their lifestyle, and that was all it took for them to be rounded up. The nuns, priests, bishops, and monks were refusing to engage in any sex at all, thus deviating, and were labeled just the same as homosexuals.
When oaths had been taken to live the celibate lifestyle, the Nazis knew they were not going to be able to un-convert the clergy. So while being Catholic was not regarded as deviant, being a leader of the Catholic church was. Men and clergy were made to wear an upside-down pink triangle while nuns and lesbians were made to wear an upside-down black triangle on their lapel.
They circulated extensive paperwork to the community explaining how the Jewish race had out-bred the Aryan race, and this could not be tolerated by them or any other inferior race. People of Aryan blood were expected to have children. The best genetics for women to breed with during this time were, conveniently, high-ranking soldiers of the Nazi Armed Forces.
For years gay men and women have worn these upside-down pink and black triangles as a show of pride and solidarity with those who suffered and died in this atrocity. However, during the Nineties a change began to take place. Rather than wearing the symbol assigned by the Hitler minions, which was considered by many as focusing on a negative event in history, they began to wear the symbol of an upside-down triangle with the colors of the rainbow as a way to bring a positive message while still acknowledging history.
Such a beautiful gift makes a delightful home accent for anyone. However, the symbolism of rainbows has special significance to GBLT communities. Not everyone realizes just how many homosexuals were sent to Nazi death camps during World War II.
Most are familiar with the Star of David which those of the Jewish race were forced to wear during the Nazi occupation. However, not everyone is familiar with the upside down pink triangle gay men, as well as male officers of the Catholic church, were forced to wear. Even some within the gay community are not aware that Catholic nuns, as well as lesbians, were forced to wear the upside-down black triangle.
Homosexuals have been demonized and labeled an abomination by just about every fundamentalist type cultish organization, including the Nazi Party. There are some moderate and even liberal religious people who do not judge the gay lifestyle harshly, but those people are few and far between. For now the United States remains entrenched in a completely irrelevant debate about the so-called sanctity of marriage due to fundamentalist views being pushed on others.
Due to the fact that being gay was viewed as a deviation from what was regarded as healthy and normal for adults, they were labeled and lost any status that their so-called racial purity might have afforded them. They were committed to their lifestyle, and that was all it took for them to be rounded up. The nuns, priests, bishops, and monks were refusing to engage in any sex at all, thus deviating, and were labeled just the same as homosexuals.
When oaths had been taken to live the celibate lifestyle, the Nazis knew they were not going to be able to un-convert the clergy. So while being Catholic was not regarded as deviant, being a leader of the Catholic church was. Men and clergy were made to wear an upside-down pink triangle while nuns and lesbians were made to wear an upside-down black triangle on their lapel.
They circulated extensive paperwork to the community explaining how the Jewish race had out-bred the Aryan race, and this could not be tolerated by them or any other inferior race. People of Aryan blood were expected to have children. The best genetics for women to breed with during this time were, conveniently, high-ranking soldiers of the Nazi Armed Forces.
For years gay men and women have worn these upside-down pink and black triangles as a show of pride and solidarity with those who suffered and died in this atrocity. However, during the Nineties a change began to take place. Rather than wearing the symbol assigned by the Hitler minions, which was considered by many as focusing on a negative event in history, they began to wear the symbol of an upside-down triangle with the colors of the rainbow as a way to bring a positive message while still acknowledging history.
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