in college (East Texas State University, now Texas A&M Commerce), I sewed a gigantic upside-down pink triangle on the back of my jean jacket.

Inevitably, people would ask me what it was "for."

So I told them: it is the symbol that gays wore on their nazi concentration camp uniforms to identify them.

The conversation always seemed to end there.  I could have been killed.  But I know I made them think.