Today, the pink triangle symbol appears frequently at Pride marches - but the history of the pink triangle dates back to the Nazis and World War II, when the pink triangle was used as a means to identify and dehumanize gay men. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, they began enforcing the 1871 German law that made homosexuality illegal. This was part of the Nazis’ attempt at “purifying” Germany and ridding the country of people that they deemed as “degenerates.” Many gay men were imp