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Contents:

• THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG
• NFL'S KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY, MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OUT MALE COACH MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
• WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
• GAY RIGHTS

THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG

He beme iends wh Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person elected to office California, who urged his iend to create a symbol for gay Milk enuraged Baker to create somethg symbolic for LGBTQ+ rights.

… It was necsary to have the rabow flag bee up until that we had the pk triangle om the Nazis— was the symbol that they would e [to note gay people].

Irong the two flags—which each measured 30 feet by 60 feet—required 10 first flags went up at the Uned Natns Plaza durg the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25, 1978. He was missned to create a flag by another gay in, polician Harvey Milk, for San Francis’s annual pri cisn to enlist Baker proved serendipo, as the ia of a flag to reprent the gay and lbian muny had occurred to him two years earlier. As Baker told the Mm of Morn Art durg a 2015 terview, he had been spired by the celebratns markg Ameri’s bicentennial 1976, notg that the nstant display of stars and strip ma him realize the cultural need for a siar rallyg sign for the gay muny.

NFL'S KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY, MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OUT MALE COACH MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

And as a stgglg drag performer who was acctomed to creatg his own garments, he was well-equipped to sew the soon-to-be inic the time, the most monly ed image for the burgeong gay rights movement was the pk triangle, a symbol ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals. At the top was hot pk, which reprented sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow signifyg sunlight, green for nature, turquoise to reprent art, digo for harmony, and fally vlet at the bottom for the help of close to 30 volunteers workg the attic of the Gay Communy Center San Francis, Baker was able to nstct the first draft of the now world-renowned rabow flag. It was first showsed at San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25, the sign was unveiled, participants of the para proudly waved the new symbol solidary.

WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?

) He ma the flag for the Gay Freedom Pri Para that year San Francis, at the requt of Harvey Milk, a gay cy polician who was assassated later that symbol took hold immediately. Durg the Holot, Nazis forced gay men to wear pk triangl as a symbol of sexual rabow flag was a way of takg the var lors and turng them to a herent symbol, reclaimed by the LGBT muny. As Baker told MOMA:"It was necsary to have the Rabow Flag bee up until that we had the pk triangle om the Nazis — was the symbol that they would e [to note gay people].

Judy Garland, the star of "The Wizard of Oz, " has a large followg as a gay symbol, and is famo for sgg "Somewhere Over the Rabow" the movie. In 2017, rponse to a slew of racist cints the Gayborhood, Philalphia add black and brown strip to the tradnal six-lor LGBT rabow flag. Here are the highlights of what I learned about this lorful, often-changg orig mythQueer inography once clud pk and black triangl—re-appropriated by the LGBT muny after the Nazis ed them to label gay men and lbians ncentratn mps—and the labrys—a double-head ax associated wh the mythologil, matriarchal Amazons.

”Ruby Slipper activism on a T-shirt ma by the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task ForceFriends of Dorothy One might be quick to pot out the signifince of the song “Somewhere Over the Rabow” om the 1939 queer classic The Wizard of Oz.

GAY RIGHTS

Ronald Kobata of the Buddhist Church of San Francis (BCSF) wh the BCSF outActivist Arnie Kantrowz’s 1977 tobgraphy Unr the Rabow: Growg Up Gay is much more explic s e of symbolism. ” Kantrowz’s work was wily reviewed a number of perdils, where fellow gay men flted him for his “trivial, obv metaphor” and “unfortunate tle. From para floats to boutique swag, a nfluence of mercial terts and rpectabily polics have renred the go-to logo of “the gay agenda, ” along wh hashtags and slogans that have helped ame watershed moments like marriage equaly and media reprentatn palatable and punchy terms.

Together, the Pri Flag's six rabow lors symbolize hope, and each also has s own meang:Red: LifeOrange: HealgYellow: SunlightGreen: NatureBlue: Peace or serenyPurple: SpirLGBTQ Pri flags go beyond the classic 's what each one meansLGBTQ glossary: Defns every good ally should knowThe history of the Gilbert Baker Pri Flag In the 1970s, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official  California, challenged activist Gilbert Baker to sign a symbol of hope for the gay muny. "Harvey Milk was a iend of me, an important gay lear San Francis the ’70s, and he rried a really important msage about how important was to be visible, " said Baker an terview wh the Mm of Morn Art 2015. The origal pri flag was created the 1970s by gay activist Gilbert Baker, iend of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California.

1970s: Do It YourselfIn Andy Campbell’s sential book Queer x Dign, the historian wr that the Vietnam vet and marijuana activist Gilbert Baker “was asked by San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk to sign a new flag for the upg Gay Freedom Day celebratns, ” 1978.