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WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?

It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag. Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials the U.

THE GAY RABOW IS A MARK OF THE BEAST

S., to create a symbol of pri for the gay muny.

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.

DIGNER OF RABOW FLAG, ENDURG SYMBOL FOR GAY RIGHTS, HAS DIED

The first versns of the rabow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para. 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.

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