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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.
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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.
STORY: At their home Kyiv, Ukraian volunteer fighters Oleksandr Zhuhan and Antona Romanova pack for a return to active duty. Their uniform bar a rare distctn - the image of a unirn sewn to s standard-issue eplets, jt below the natnal flag - a symbol of their stat as an LGBTQ uple who are Ukraian pair would not scribe themselv as LGBTQ activists, but they are both open about their sexualy - Romanova intifi as non-bary and she/her says the mythil beast rri an important msage for LGBTQ soldiers. “It dat back to 2014 when Rsian war started, and lots of people jt said there are no gay people the army. And so the LGBTQ muny chose the unirn bee is like a fantastic non-existent creature and so beme the symbol of LGBTQ people the army.”Neher traed to e weapons before the nflict Ukrae began, but after spendg a uple of days hidg their bathroom at the start of the war, Romanova said they cid they had to do more:“I jt remember that at a certa pot beme obv that we only had three optns: eher hi a bomb shelter, n away and pe, or jo the Terrorial Defense. We chose the third optn.”The uple's first tour of duty around Mykolaiv southern Ukrae, approximately 84 om the port town of Osa, changed their liv. They fought the same un - Zhuhan ntracted pnmonia and they risked ath om Rsian artillery. But, they say their fellow fighters accepted them.“There was no aggrsn, no bullyg. A slight surprise, was a ltle unual for the others. But, over time people started llg me Antona, some even ed my “she” pronoun.”However one overridg fear, voiced back their apartment by Zuhan, remas.“The thg I'm worried about is that se I get killed durg this war, they won't allow Antona to bury me the way I want to be buried. They'd rather let my mum bury me wh the prit readg the silly prayers and dog those relig thgs. But I am an atheist and I don’t want that.” * gay unicorn symbol *
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