Andy Cohen wears his "gold star gay" stat wh pri.
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WHAT IS THIS "GOLD STAR GAY" STAT THAT ANDY COHEN REFERRED TO?
* meaning of gay star *
Strewn across flags, banners, and ps, the rabow symboliz the diversy of gays and lbians around the world.
The Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs Edburgh formally adopted the symbol as an in for gay and lbian rights 1974. Tradnally, the symbol is drawn pla black, but more recent versns pict the double mars wh the rabow lors filled to symbolize the gays’ aterny or solidary wh other subsectors of the muny. The pk triangle symbol was first ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals their ncentratn mps.
THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
Over the urse of the send world war, an timated 10, 000 to 15, 000 homosexuals were rcerated. The symbol has sce been reclaimed as a symbol of Pri and remembrance of the horrors that gay men experienced Nazi Germany. Green was a mon lor to refer to homosexuals, back 19th-century England.
This was a practice popularized by thor Osr Wil who was openly gay and would proudly wear a green rnatn at public events. Back the 20th century New York, gay men would wear a red necktie or bow tie or basilly any red accsory to subtly reprent their inti and help intify members of the same muny.