Breakaway Gay & Lesbian Travel Guide

The rainbow is a symbol of gay pride, as opposed to gay liberation, which used the pink triangle on various colored fields. The ancient Greek Spartans believed the lambda meant unity, while the Romans considered it, the light of knowledge shed into the darkness of ignorance.

Symbols of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Movements

The lower case Greek letter lambda continues to remain popular. The symbol was originally chosen by the Gay Activists Alliance of New York in 1970. The GAA was a group which broke away from the larger Gay Liberation Front at the end of 1969, only six months after it's foundation in response to the Stonewall Riots. While the GLF wanted to work side by side with the black and women's liberation movements to gain unity and acceptance The GAA wanted to focus their efforts more concisely on only Gay and Lesbian issues.

Gay Pride - Rainbow Flag

We have included this section on flags as we will be using the Gay Flags throughout this site depicting the country that services and hotels are located.

Each colour on the gay pride flag (also known as the rainbow flag) has a different meaning.

Incidentally, the flag has also been an amazing fun-raising tool for the Gay Rights Movement. When large rainbow flags were first carried along parade routes with the carriers at the corners and along the sides, they found that people along the parade route, would throw change into convenient valley created in the flag's centre. As with any symbol, the varieties that the rainbow flag currently comes in are limitless. Shown here is the flag with triangle, and the flag with the lambda symbol incorporated.

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