Meet Gilbert Baker, the Man Who Invented the Gay Pri Rabow Flag |

Contents:

• WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
• RANDY RABOW WON’T STOP SAYG ‘GAY’ TO FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS NEW PARODY: WATCH
• AFTER GAY MAN WAS TARGETED FOR RABOW HOE IA, DOZENS HELPED HIM PAT THE LORFUL STRIP
• NEIGHBORS HELP GAY MAN PAT HOE RABOW STRIP AFTER HE FACED THREATS
• RABOW SIX SIEGE GETS S FIRST GAY OPERATOR, FLOR
• FORD UNVEILED A 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO A HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTER
• GAY SHOP - MEN'S GAY PRI APPAREL AND FASHN ACCSORI - PRI MERCHANDISE, GAY CLOTH, GAY PRI SHIRTS, HATS, CAPS, UNRWEAR & PRI GEAR.
• MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG

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.

RANDY RABOW WON’T STOP SAYG ‘GAY’ TO FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS NEW PARODY: WATCH

Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials the U.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. The first versns of the rabow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para. The LGBT pri flag was vented 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay rights activist, army veteran, artist, and self-styled "gay Betsy Ross.

) He ma the flag for the Gay Freedom Pri Para that year San Francis, at the requt of Harvey Milk, a gay cy polician who was assassated later that symbol took hold immediately. "Closeted gay people have also historilly ed bright lors to signal their homosexualy to each other, as Forrt Wickman wrote Slate. Durg the Holot, Nazis forced gay men to wear pk triangl as a symbol of sexual rabow flag was a way of takg the var lors and turng them to a herent symbol, reclaimed by the LGBT muny.

AFTER GAY MAN WAS TARGETED FOR RABOW HOE IA, DOZENS HELPED HIM PAT THE LORFUL STRIP

As Baker told MOMA:"It was necsary to have the Rabow Flag bee up until that we had the pk triangle om the Nazis — was the symbol that they would e [to note gay people]. Judy Garland, the star of "The Wizard of Oz, " has a large followg as a gay symbol, and is famo for sgg "Somewhere Over the Rabow" the movie.

And when the Supreme Court tablished the legaly of gay marriage natnwi 2015's Obergefell v.

NEIGHBORS HELP GAY MAN PAT HOE RABOW STRIP AFTER HE FACED THREATS

The Whe Hoe illumated rabow lors after 2015's Supreme Court lg legalizg gay marriage. Most likely, you thk of homosexualy or the wir LGBT movement. Gilbert Baker, the man creded wh pneerg the celebratory rabow flag flyg over the gay movement, recently ld his craft, notg that ’s somethg betiful.

” Acrdg to Baker, the God of the Bible knows the stggle of gays and lbians, and that is where he fds hope. God do ed know the ternal and social battl of gays and lbians, but the qutn is, Do he approve of their practice? The Supreme Court’s cisn on gay “marriage” has ma the rabow symbol ubiquo.

God signed the rabow to symbolize somethg far greater and far more glor than homosexualy, and if those the homosexual muny tly unrstood and embraced the symbol they are wavg their hands, they would experience te eedom and peace. In that day the lofty pri of all men, cludg gay pri, will be brought low, and the Lord alone will be glorly exalted.

RABOW SIX SIEGE GETS S FIRST GAY OPERATOR, FLOR

The fact that he has reaed om sendg another flood to stroy the world do not mean that he accepts homosexual practic, or any other kd of s.

Rather, this kd of mercy shows that God is patiently wag for all, cludg homosexuals, to believe. Let pray that those the homosexual muny would look past the rabow to the fal solutn for God’s anger towards s.

Randy Rabow Won’t Stop Sayg ‘Gay’ to Florida Gov. The new parody the wake of the state's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill beg signed to law. A Randy Rabow Song Parody "GAY!

FORD UNVEILED A 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO A HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTER

After Florida ernor Ron DeSantis officially signed the oft-discsed “Don’t Say Gay” bill to law March 28, LGBTQ crics have been out full force nmng both him and the state ernment for passg such blatantly homophobic legislatn.

In his latt parody vio released on Monday (April 4), Rabow refed to stop sayg “gay” so much, that he even tled the vio “Gay! Wh that, Rabow lnched to his song — set to the tune of “Shy” by Mary Rodgers om her 1959 mil Once Upon a Mattrs — and repeatedly asserts his own gayns throughout the song, flyg the face of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill’s moniker. As he ntually says the word “gay” lour and lour, Rabow also tak time to ntue mockg the ernor’s policy.

GAY SHOP - MEN'S GAY PRI APPAREL AND FASHN ACCSORI - PRI MERCHANDISE, GAY CLOTH, GAY PRI SHIRTS, HATS, CAPS, UNRWEAR & PRI GEAR.

“But you’d rather talk straight/ And I hate to offend/ So I’ll try not to say that I’m as/ Gay as an easter bouquet! Check out Randy Rabow’s full parody song “Gay! Mykey O’Halloran had fally saved enough money to buy a small beach hoe on Atralia’s Phillip Island — and he’d settled on a lor scheme he thought was perfect for a proud gay hairstylist whose Unirn Man salon specializ rabow-hued signs, O’Halloran has crafted hair to remble tas, cheeburgers and i.

The men shouted homophobic slurs, said O’Halloran, and one of them threatened to kill him if he went ahead wh his rabow project. “I cried myself to sleep last night after feelg so vad, homophobilly attacked and threatened my very own home, ” he wrote. To help spread his joy — and his pri at beg a gay man — O'Halloran cid he'd pat his new beach hoe on Phillip Island, a small Atralian muny of about 7, 000 people, rabow strip, the Post reported.

MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG

"I am a good person society and I brg joy wh rabows, and no opnated homophobic that's opposed to the cisn of how I want to live my life is gog to take that away om me, " O'Halloran wrote on Facebook.

The hair stylist said the men shouted homophobic slurs at him, and one even threatened to kill him if he did go ahead wh his plans to pat his hoe (that man was later charged wh unlawful asslt and makg threats to kill, acrdg to the Post. I cried myself to sleep last night after feelg so vad, vlated, homophobilly attacked and threatened my very own home, " O'Halloran wrote on Facebook. "The rabow ia, I nnot say that was Gilbert's ia, " says Lynn Segerblom, now a Los Angel-area rint, who was, wh Baker, chair of the ratns mtee for the 1978 Gay Freedom Day celebratn.

But he wasn't the gay Betsy Ross. "Artie began to prs me to e up wh a new symbol for what he had lled 'the dawn of a new gay nscns and eedom, '" Baker wr. I thought a gay natn should have a flag too, to proclaim s own ia of power.