Ne of the biggt, most LGBTQ-supportive rporatns Ameri gave about $1 ln or more each to anti-gay policians the last electn cycle. Compani like AT&T, UPS, Comst, Home Depot and General Electric. All told, their donatns totaled almost $15 ln.
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DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS
The Human Rights Campaign logo is one of the most regnizable symbols of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny. * gay rights rainbow logo *
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.
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.Baker's rabow pattern has sce moved on om jt flags. And when the Supreme Court tablished the legaly of gay marriage natnwi 2015's Obergefell v.
The Whe Hoe illumated rabow lors after 2015's Supreme Court lg legalizg gay marriage. 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.