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UNY AND RISTANCE: THE HISTORY BEHD THE GAY PRI FLAG
Our job as gay people was to e out, to be visible, to live the tth... How did the rabow-lored Pri flag bee a universal symbol of gay pri, queer love, clivy, and tolerance?
As a muny, both lol and ternatnal, gay people were the midst of an upheaval, a battle for equal rights, a shift stat where we were now mandg power, takg . In 1978, Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man, signed the first rabow flag to reprent the gay muny at the requt of San Francis-based polician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay official elected to office. I thought a gay natn should have a flag too, to proclaim s own ia of power.