Tom Doerr
(? - ?) U.S.A.
Activist
  In 1970, after the Stonewall Rebellion, the Gay Activist Alliance of New York City selected the Greek letter lambda as an emblem. Member of the Alliance, Tom Doerr, suggested it because of its use in physics to designate kinetic potential. Its emergence after the Rebellion may give it militant associations. In 1974 lambda was adopted as the international symbol for lesbian and gay rights by the International Gay Rights Congress meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. The "Lightning Lambda" badge was first available in the UK in 1979 at 15p each.
Source: The Knitting Circle, U.K. - http://www.sbu.ac.uk/stafflag/people.html
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