Badge, lapel badge

This badge's slogan 'Scrap the Section!' refers to Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988. Under the legislation, local authorities were prohibited by law from 'promoting homosexuality by teaching or by publishing material'. A mass campaign to repeal Section 28 was launched and provided the catalyst for the establishment of the gay rights organisation Stonewall. The Section was finally repealed by the government on 18 November 2003.

The pink triangle emblem is a reference to the cloth badges that gay prisoners were forced to wear on their uniforms in Nazi concentration camps. Thousands of gay people were persecuted by the Nazi regime and many perished in the Holocaust at death camps such as Auschwitz.

After World War II, the West German gay rights movement used the symbol in their campaign for compensation from the government. In Britain when the gay liberation movement emerged in the 1970s, activists adopted the symbol to represent both persecution and resistance to prejudice.