Gay DUers: What is the significance of the Greek letter 'Lambda'?

Taverner

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Mon Dec-01-08 06:15 PM
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Gay DUers: What is the significance of the Greek letter 'Lambda'?

As in Lambda Legal, and other instances of Lambda being associated with the Gay Rights Struggle?

Just wondering, I've always wondered that association. It took me a while to learn the whole Equality Sticker and Pink Triangle too. What can I say? I'm slow.

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Mike 03

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Mon Dec-01-08 06:17 PM
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1. Thanks for asking. I'm curious too. It has a very different meaning

in superstring and physics mathematics.

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Taverner

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Mon Dec-01-08 06:18 PM
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2. Yep, wouldn't it be cool if there was some math-geek connection?

The geek in me always likes geek connections

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mcctatas

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Mon Dec-01-08 06:19 PM
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3. according to teh google...

http://www.lambda.org/symbols.htm

Because of its official adoption by the GAA, which sponsored public events for the gay community, the lambda soon became a quick way for the members of the gay community to identify each other. The reasoning was that the lambda would easily be mistaken for a college fraternity symbol and ignored by the majority of the population. Eventually though, the GAA headquarters was torched by an arsonist, destroying not only the building but all of the organization's records, and the movement never recovered from the loss. The symbol, however, lived on.

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Taverner

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Mon Dec-01-08 06:21 PM
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5. Ahh and this makes sense: "Simply, the Greek letter "L" stands for "liberation." "

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Mon Dec-01-08 06:21 PM
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4. For a second I thought you were Boojatta.

Then I realized you were asking an actual question.

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La Lioness Priyanka

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Mon Dec-01-08 06:23 PM
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6. ...

:rofl:

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KitchenWitch

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Mon Dec-01-08 06:23 PM
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7. *snicker*

That was funny!

:rofl:

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