A prentatn of the major symbols associated wh the gay, lbian, bisexual, and trangenr movements (and some general symbols thrown for good measure) and their histori.
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WAS "RED, GOLD, AND GREEN" ED TO DISPLAY GAY PRI?
It's hard to prove a negative, but searchg has not turned up any other mentn of "red, gold, and green" beg ed as a gay pri symbol.
A more mon claim - posted twice on the Quora thread, and as a proposed ed on Geni - is that Boy Gee was attemptg to draw a parallel between the stggle for racial equaly and the stggle for gay equaly, but whether that's te is probably a whole different qutn. They were wrten about my relatnship wh Jon, and they were also wrten about beg a gay man a homophobic world.
It was signed by gay artist and activist Gilbert Baker when his iend Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay elected official California, asked him to sign a symbol for the LGBTQ muny. It was first showsed on San Francis’s Gay Pri Day on June 25, 1978. After a number of high-profile stori exposed the rampant racism Philly’s Gayborhood, people of lor started mandg more cln the cy’s LGBTQ muny.