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Translingual
Symbol
⚣
- gay, male homosexual; male homosexuality.
- 2003, Ken Cage, Moyra Evans, Gayle: The Language of Kinks and Queens : a History and Dictionary of Gay Language in South Africa (in English), Jacana Media, →ISBN, page 48:
- Gender symbols are common astrological signs which have come to us from Roman times. The pointed Mars symbol (♂) represents the male and the Venus symbol (♀) with the cross represents the female. Gay men have used double interlocking male symbols (⚣) since the 1970s. Double interlocking female symbols (⚢) have often been used to denote lesbianism, but some feminists have instead used the double female symbols to represent the “sisterhood of women”.
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- Linked variant
- Splayed variant
- As a crosswalk symbol in London
- On a flag in the US Library of Congress
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