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Contents:
- HOW DID THE RABOW BEE A SYMBOL OF GAY PRI?
- WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
- HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
HOW DID THE RABOW BEE A SYMBOL OF GAY PRI?
* rainbow gay symbol origin *
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.
And as a stgglg drag performer who was acctomed to creatg his own garments, he was well-equipped to sew the soon-to-be inic the time, the most monly ed image for the burgeong gay rights movement was the pk triangle, a symbol ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals.
WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
At the top was hot pk, which reprented sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow signifyg sunlight, green for nature, turquoise to reprent art, digo for harmony, and fally vlet at the bottom for the help of close to 30 volunteers workg the attic of the Gay Communy Center San Francis, Baker was able to nstct the first draft of the now world-renowned rabow flag. It was first showsed at San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25, the sign was unveiled, participants of the para proudly waved the new symbol solidary. His legacy liv on the six-lored flag that fli proudly every Gay Pri month, regnizg the liv, and lov, of LGBT people worldwi.
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. In 2017, rponse to a slew of racist cints the Gayborhood, Philalphia add black and brown strip to the tradnal six-lor LGBT rabow flag. Here are the highlights of what I learned about this lorful, often-changg orig mythQueer inography once clud pk and black triangl—re-appropriated by the LGBT muny after the Nazis ed them to label gay men and lbians ncentratn mps—and the labrys—a double-head ax associated wh the mythologil, matriarchal Amazons.
”Ruby Slipper activism on a T-shirt ma by the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task ForceFriends of Dorothy One might be quick to pot out the signifince of the song “Somewhere Over the Rabow” om the 1939 queer classic The Wizard of Oz.
HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
Ronald Kobata of the Buddhist Church of San Francis (BCSF) wh the BCSF outActivist Arnie Kantrowz’s 1977 tobgraphy Unr the Rabow: Growg Up Gay is much more explic s e of symbolism. The tle draws directly om the Garland song, parg the highs and lows of life and gay polics to Dorothy’s journey to Oz.
” Kantrowz’s work was wily reviewed a number of perdils, where fellow gay men flted him for his “trivial, obv metaphor” and “unfortunate tle.
From para floats to boutique swag, a nfluence of mercial terts and rpectabily polics have renred the go-to logo of “the gay agenda, ” along wh hashtags and slogans that have helped ame watershed moments like marriage equaly and media reprentatn palatable and punchy terms.