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Contents:
- WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
- THE GAY RABOW IS A MARK OF THE BEAST
- HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
- WHAT THE GAY PRI MOVEMENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GOD’S RABOW
WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag. Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials the U. S., to create a symbol of pri for the gay muny.
As he later said an terview, “Our job as gay people was to e out, to be visible, to live the tth, as I say, to get out of the lie. The first versns of the rabow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para.
THE GAY RABOW IS A MARK OF THE BEAST
The LGBT pri flag was vented 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay rights activist, army veteran, artist, and self-styled "gay Betsy Ross. ) 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. "Closeted gay people have also historilly ed bright lors to signal their homosexualy to each other, as Forrt Wickman wrote Slate.
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HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
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WHAT THE GAY PRI MOVEMENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GOD’S RABOW
Gilbert Baker, the man creded wh pneerg the celebratory rabow flag flyg over the gay movement, recently ld his craft, notg that ’s somethg betiful. ” Acrdg to Baker, the God of the Bible knows the stggle of gays and lbians, and that is where he fds hope.