My avatar is a combination of two gay pride symbols, the rainbow flag and the pink triangle.
The Rainbow Flag as we know it today was developed by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker in 1978. At the time, there was a need for a gay symbol which could be used year after year for the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade. Baker took inspiration from many sources, from the hippies movement to the black civil rights movement, and came up with a flag with these colors.....
Red for life,
Orange for healing,
Yellow for the sun,
Green for nature,
Blue for art,
Violet for spirit
The pink triangle, with the point down, was created in the Nazi death camps during WW2. Hitler had his soldiers place a symbol on each prisoner's uniform that showed why they were in the camps. Gay men had a pink trinangle. Over 100,000 men were killed in the camps for being gay.