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Contents:

• WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
• MOVE I'M GAY FLAG
• 900+ GAY FLAG CLIP ART | ROYALTY FREE
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?

In late June, the Castro Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Cultural District (CQCD) San Francis voted to remend to the Castro Merchants, the bs associatn that has jurisdictn over the flagpol, that replace the origal Pri flag Harvey Milk Plaza wh a new versn of the flag that’s more clive of Black, brown, and transgenr members of the LGBTQ muny.

“[I]t was mostly low-e street queens, aga many of them Black and brown, who fought the ps the streets outsi the Stonewall Inn three years later, ” they ntued, addg that most Whe lbian and gay activists at the time nmned any type of fightg back agast police favor of a more “rpectable” image. “Some argue that the mastream gay movement sce the 1970s has bee more polilly reformist and assiatnist, ” Greene said. “Rather than challengg norms and laws around genr and sexualy, the gay movement has argued that gay people are ‘jt like everyone else’ and should have the same rights.

The problem wh creatg this kd of hierarchy of rpectabily is that empowers the most privileged gay and lbian people at the expense of members of the queer muny who are still seen as ‘viant, ’ like trans people. The origal pri flag was created the 1970s by gay activist Gilbert Baker, iend of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California.

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Origal pri flag — June 1978The first rabow pri flag was signed Gilbert Barker and unveiled durg the San Francis Gay Freedom Day on June 25, 1978. ”“Wh all of the black and brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny, ” the statement ntued.

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Acrdg to TriPri, the flag is meant to reprent the QPOC muny, pecially as relat to the ti that have bound the Black and queer muni sce the ceptn of the gay liberatn movement. Today, Two-Spired people are dividuals that intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, other genred dividuals, as well as third or fourth genred dividuals who live and intify between the worlds and genrs. Bear pri flagThe bear pri flag celebrat a subculture of the LGBTQ muny that refers to gay or bisexual men who have facial and/or body hair and embrace fortably wh masculy and their bodi, acrdg to Montclair State Universy.

It was created 1977 by Gilbert Baker, an artist, activist, and openly gay ary veteran. As the mand for the flag started to rise after the assassatn of gay San Francis Cy Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978. The addn of black and brown strip to the tradnal pri flag symbolized people of lor, who historilly were not always clud aspects of the mastream gay rights movement.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

The way that bisexual people n blend to the straight muny and the gay muny.

LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’

For example, someone uld be gay one day, then be asexual the next, then polysexual the next.

Gay Men’s Pri Flag. The Gay Men’s Pri Flag is another lser known pri flag. This morn gay men’s pri flag is a revamp of an earlier gay men’s pri flag that featured a range of blue ton.

The updated flag is meant to be clive of a much wi range of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg men. The term is scribed as a rponse to gay pri adopted by var groups (later uned unr the moniker LGBT) the early 1970s, or to the acmodatns provid to gay pri iativ.