@article{Rabow_Stein_Conley_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Teaching students about stigmatization through first-hand experience: The gay pride pin experiment}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/teaching-students-about-stigmatization-through}, abstractNote={In this paper we examine what a group of college students experienced when they were asked to wear a pink triangle pin1 as a part of a class experiment. The pink triangle symbol, once used to identify homosexual men in concentration camps during the Holocaust, has become a modern symbol embraced by the gay community as a display of social and political solidarity in support of gay rights. Wearing the pin cast the students in a stigmatized role, and allowed them to be in a position to experience the kind of attitudes and behaviors that people who are perceived of as gay find themselves subjected to on an everyday basis. Research shows efforts by students to deal with their role might also increase their understanding, tolerance, and empathy for those who are stigmatized (Hughes and Degher, 1993; Susman, 1994).}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Rabow, Jerome and Stein, Jill and Conley, Terri}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }