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LGBTQ RABOW FISH GAY PRI PANSEXUAL
* rainbow fish gay *
Why a lor batn at all, and not some kd of shape as a logo stead?The LGBT pri flag was vented 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay rights activist, army veteran, artist, and self-styled "gay Betsy Ross." (Baker died March of this year.) 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 year.The symbol took hold immediately. I realized I would have to make some promis orr for this to really functn as a symbol."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 viance.The rabow flag was a way of takg the var lors and turng them to a herent symbol, reclaimed by the LGBT muny.
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The Whe Hoe illumated rabow lors after 2015's Supreme Court lg legalizg gay marriage. I was beg mercilsly bullied at school, and was obv to even the ants that crawled the pavements that I was gay as hell, which also happened to be my Iraqi parents’ worst nightmare.
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I hate that rabows have been turned to Gay Pri symbols...
I hate that rabows have been turned to Gay Pri symbols, and I pecially hate that the Babadook, a fictnal horror character om one of the bt horror films out there, was also swallowed up to an LBGTQ symbol.
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