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Posted by Natus on Wed Apr 13th at 2:18pm 2005

well i have been in odense (its a city in denmark) and i ran into a building with the lamda sign and all, but when i walked around the cornor to look closer at it, i found out that it was a danish gay comunity :/...just needed to tell someone [addsig]



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Posted by habboi on Wed Apr 13th at 4:25pm 2005

:O I must visit smiley

Maybe Valve got the idea of making Breen gay from visiting this place smiley

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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Wed Apr 13th at 4:31pm 2005

The lamda symbol is a common insignia for gay folk.
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Posted by ReNo on Wed Apr 13th at 4:34pm 2005

News to me! How/why do groups pick an existing "symbol" for themselves? I don't really seem any obvious reason why lambda would have relevance to gay people.
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Posted by omegaslayer on Wed Apr 13th at 4:36pm 2005

News to me too..... The lamda symbol means "life" maybe these gay folk are celebrating life in general. [addsig]



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Posted by Cassius on Wed Apr 13th at 5:23pm 2005

Maybe they should put fake lambda symbols in HL2: Aftermath that in fact lead to gay bars.



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Posted by Natus on Wed Apr 13th at 6:00pm 2005

maybe the valve dudes are danish gays :O
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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Apr 13th at 6:07pm 2005

/Me tactfully avoids commenting.

See, I am not always a prick :P

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Posted by ding on Wed Apr 13th at 6:17pm 2005

Oh no! They have to use a different symbol - a big penis maybe - but NOT THE HALF-LIFE LOGO!
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Posted by ReNo on Wed Apr 13th at 6:46pm 2005

Thats not what I meant at all, I just didn't see how it was at all relevant to the gay community, whereas I did know how it was relevant to the game Half-Life. But anyway, I went and dug into the definition a little and found this page...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&oi=defmore&q=define:Lambda

From there, apparently it does have some relevance, its not just a "randomly chosen symbol".

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This Greek letter was adopted by the Gay Activist Alliance in 1970 as a symbol of the gay movement. An ancient Greek regiment of warriors who carried a flag emblazoned with the lambda marched into battle with their male lovers. The group was noted for their fierceness and willingness to fight until death. It became the symbol of their growing movement of gay liberation. In 1974, the Lambda was subsequently adopted by the International Gay Rights Congress held in Edinburgh, Scotland. As their symbol for lesbian and gay rights, the Lambda has become internationally popular.
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Posted by omegaslayer on Wed Apr 13th at 7:14pm 2005

Nice find Reno! smiley
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Posted by satchmo on Wed Apr 13th at 7:38pm 2005

Yeah, did you know that Achilles from the Iliad (made into a movie last year "Troy") is suppose to be gay? Freaking Hollywood had to change the story because of the retarded homophobics in the U.S. [addsig]



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Posted by Natus on Wed Apr 13th at 7:45pm 2005

man, i just thought that lambda was a greece letter and the hl symbol, nothing more than that :/
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Posted by RayMad on Wed Apr 13th at 7:58pm 2005

I actually have some pictures i COULD upload if I wasnt too lazy.
But its with danish text, so.. Natus, you'll be their teacher -_____-




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Posted by Natus on Wed Apr 13th at 8:14pm 2005

:/
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Posted by fishy on Wed Apr 13th at 8:14pm 2005

? quoting satchmo
Yeah, did you know that Achilles from the Iliad (made into a movie last year "Troy") is suppose to be gay? Freaking Hollywood had to change the story because of the retarded homophobics in the U.S.

woohoo, let's all gang up on people that ascribe to a certain morality and say they've got some sort of phobia, if that morality somehow differs from our own. like maybe getting all the old people that were raised, taught, indoctinated, to believe that homosexuallity is somehow wrong, and call them retards for it.

very 21st century.

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Posted by ReNo on Wed Apr 13th at 8:16pm 2005

More than just Achilles, Satchmo, but in those times sex between two males was hugely commonplace. Many in those times had same sex relationships for fun, while sex with females was reserved for procreation. Socrates and Plato, both famous Greek philosophers, had sex more often than not with other men. Alexander the Great, as shown in the recent movie (which I hear is rubbish), was also gay, and he was the student of Aristotle, who in turn was the student of Plato (who in turn was the student of Socrates...all one big happy family eh!). I read somewhere that Patriclus or whatever Achille's "cousin"'s name is in the film Troy, was actually his closest lover as opposed to a relative.
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Posted by Natus on Wed Apr 13th at 8:20pm 2005

so now we have come to the conclusion that he old greece people were gay people...clever gay peepole...
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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Apr 13th at 9:30pm 2005

? quoting satchmo
homophobics

I absolutely hate this word. It is the absolute biggest misnomer in the last 100 years or more.

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Posted by Spartan on Wed Apr 13th at 9:48pm 2005

I thought if someone had a phobia they were suppose to be afraid of it? Not go around and beat the s**t out of them.

I remember a comic on comedy central that said something similar. She said that she thought they were called assholes and not homophobes. Lol funny stuff.

As for the lambda symbol that is new news to me. I don't get why the gay community would want to use that symbol. I thought they used a rainbow or something. Which also has nothing to do with homosexuallity.

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