Hot pink represented sexuality, red for life, orange. Throughout the Holocaust, the Nazis forced those whom they labeled as gay to wear inverted pink triangle badges, just as they forced Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David. This triangle, however, had a loaded, anti-gay history. Initially, the flag had eight stripes with each color representing a particular meaning. Before the rainbow pride flag was created, there was another symbol for the LGBTQIA+ community: a pink triangle. 30 volunteers had hand-dyed and stitched these flags.
