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Contents:
- WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
- THE GAY RABOW IS A MARK OF THE BEAST
- HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
- THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ 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.
THE GAY RABOW IS A MARK OF THE BEAST
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.
HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
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.
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.
THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG
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. And as a stgglg drag performer who was acctomed to creatg his own garments, he was well-equipped to sew the soon-to-be inic the time, the most monly ed image for the burgeong gay rights movement was the pk triangle, a symbol ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals.