The morn unirn is everywhere. On children’s TV, on Gay Pri march and sellg bety products. Alice Fisher looks at why this magil creature has bee so popular
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GAY PRI
Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969. * gay culture symbol *
Strewn across flags, banners, and ps, the rabow symboliz the diversy of gays and lbians around the world.
SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE
A prentatn of the major symbols associated wh the gay, lbian, bisexual, and trangenr movements (and some general symbols thrown for good measure) and their histori. * gay culture symbol *
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. The pk triangle symbol was first ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals their ncentratn mps.
Rabow Flag The rabow flag has bee the easily regnized lors of pri for the gay muny. The multicultural symbolism of the rabow is nothg new— Jse Jackson's Rabow Coaln also embrac the rabow as a symbol of that polil movement. * gay culture symbol *
Over the urse of the send world war, an timated 10, 000 to 15, 000 homosexuals were rcerated. 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.