Earlier this month Donald Trump reposted an article to his Truth Social account with the image of a pink triangle, a symbol used by the Nazis in WW2 to identify gay men in concentration camps. The triangle in the article Trump posted was overlaid with a red circle and a line through it, suggesting “gays not allowed.” Titled “Army recruitment ads look quite different under Trump,” the story praised Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for refocusing the military on “lethality.” It mentions that ads that promoted pride for LGBTQ service members under the Biden administration have been canceled. Does the image present a scary future for LGB_Q service members? There has already been a purge of transgender service personnel.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is against LGBTQ inclusion in the military and has criticized the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. This is all seemingly on Brand for Trump 2.0: gender-affirming care for trans children banned, only binary definitions of gender allowed, the end of the federal government legally recognizing trans people, the interfering with school curricula to whitewash history…yeah, a nazi symbol for this administration isn’t far off base, if at all. During the Holocaust, up to 15,000 gay men were taken to concentration camps, where most of them perished.
The pink triangle symbol was later reclaimed by the queer community, in particular during the AIDS epidemic, when it was \changed to face upward for the “Silence = Death” Project. This isn’t the first time Trump or one of his associates has aligned himself with Nazi imagery. Let us not forget that Elon Musk did a Nazi salute during a Trump rally. It’s all quite disturbing, as the Queer God Squad will now discuss.
