With a lavender lambda on a simple white background. In the early 1970’s the Los Angeles gay community created a flag Huxley’s novel Chrome Yellow which was very popular with gayĪctivists of the time) on a dark blue field. Tom Doerr originally colored it chrome yellow (a reference to Specifically, and it was only later that it became a sign for gay liberation The lambda sign to refer to the political work of GAA (Gay Activist Alliance) Tom Doerr originally (in the 1970’s) intended Gay Activist Alliance (New York City, US) This explanation seems to make sense to me. The Spartan military used shields which sported the letter Lambda as a Sparta: Its citizen-militia promoted homosexuality among its members…
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I was told once that the Lambda (or "L") derives from ancient Sappho is supposed to have lived - the word " lesbian"ĭerives from it. (modern pron.: "lisvos"), a Greek island on the Aegean Sea were I always thought that it was just the inicial of Romans considered it «the light of knowledge shed into the TheĪncient Greek Spartans regarded the lambda to mean unity, while the Signifies the action needed to reach and maintain balance. Scales and balance, and the constant force that keeps opposing sidesįrom overcoming each other - the hook at the bottom of the right leg Whole is greater than the sum of its parts. May also denote the synergy of the gay movement, the idea that the Wavelength (are gays and lesbians on a different wavelength?). To denote energy (the energy we have when we work in concert) or Others disagree, citing the use of lambda in physics Some suggested that it is simply the Greek lower-case letter "L" for He said that in chemistry it is a sign for a catalyst. The graphic artist and GAA founding member Tom Doerr. They always told me was that the lamda was first designed in December 1969 by I am personally aquainted with some veterans of the old 1970’s Was never intended to be linked to any specific gender or orientation suchĪs other symbols may be, historically this is not so: some saw the lambdaīut where history ends, speculation begins. Lesbian’s and gay men’s concerns together.
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Whatever the exact meaning and origin, the lambda originally embodied aįairly militant connotation. Symbol for lesbian and gay rights, the lambda became internationally
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The International Gay Rights Congress held in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1974, the lambda was subsequently adopted by The lambda was first chosen as a gay symbol when it was adopted in 1970 by There are several differing opinions as to why the lambda was chosen as a gay The lambda symbol seems to be one of the mostĬontroversial of symbols in regards to its meaning. Looks like an "A" without the horizontal stroke. It’s a lower case lambda ("λ"), as the upper case Los Angeles (US) gay community proposal.(glyph from Monotype’s Corsiva Regular typeface) Keywords: lambda | lamda | λ | l | doerr (tom) | gay activist alliance | gaa | los angeles | catalyst | liberation | energy | wavelength | scales | balance | action | unity | light | lesbian | sparta | lacedaemon | laconia | This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website Lambda flags (gay pride) Sexual Orientation Flags