The disturbg secret msage of the ‘gay pri’ flag - LifeSe

Contents:

• WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
• THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG
• WHAT DO LGBTQ+ STAND FOR AND WHAT DO THE RABOW GAY PRI FLAG MEAN?

WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?

The LGBT rabow and 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 for gay pri 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. 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. It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag.

THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG

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.

WHAT DO LGBTQ+ STAND FOR AND WHAT DO THE RABOW GAY PRI FLAG MEAN?

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.