McGlynn is a teacher and says his pink triangle tattoo isn’t as obviously gay as a rainbow flag, so his students often ask him about it. ‘It gives me an opportunity to say out loud in public that I’m a gay man,’ he said. Greg Baillie got his pink triangle tattoo on his wrist so he can hide it under his watch if he ever feels unsafe. He said: ‘I got it to feel like part of a community whilst remembering the horror that had befitted some that had went before. Jeff Ingold wanted to make his triangle tattoo special so he got a triangle outline, with the date he came out in the middle. Ingold continued: ‘Along with that, my dad once told me he wished I didn’t wear my sexuality on my sleeve so much.’ He said: ‘I got this tattoo to remember all those who came before me, who fought and died for our rights and also, to place myself in that history.’ Jeff Ingold got a tattoo of the pink triangle with the date of his coming out. ‘This is who I am, this is my history and I won’t be ashamed of showing it off,’ he added.īisexual people also have a version of the pink triangle with a blue triangle linked.
