The Human Rights Campaign logo is one of the most regnizable symbols of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny.
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DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS
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Why a lor batn at all, and not some kd of shape as a logo stead?The LGBT pri flag was vented 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay rights activist, army veteran, artist, and self-styled "gay Betsy Ross." (Baker died March of this year.) 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 year.The symbol took hold immediately."We stood there and watched and saw the flags, and their fac l up," Cleve Jon, an LGBT rights activist prent at the para, told The New York Tim. I realized I would have to make some promis orr for this to really functn as a symbol."Closeted gay people have also historilly ed bright lors to signal their homosexualy to each other, as Forrt Wickman wrote Slate.
Durg the Holot, Nazis forced gay men to wear pk triangl as a symbol of sexual viance.The rabow flag was a way of takg the var lors and turng them to a herent symbol, reclaimed by the LGBT muny.