Gay Rights - Movement, Marriage & Flag | HISTORY

Contents:

• HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY WATER CLAPS BACK AT BUD LIGHT'S INSCERE LGBTQ+ SUPPORT
• SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE

HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

) 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. 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.

GAY RIGHTS

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.

GAY WATER CLAPS BACK AT BUD LIGHT'S INSCERE LGBTQ+ SUPPORT

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.

It’s a venant between God and all livg creatur.” Acrdg to Baker, the God of the Bible knows the stggle of gays and lbians, and that is where he fds hope. 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. 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.

SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE

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. 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.

At the top was hot pk, which reprented sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow signifyg sunlight, green for nature, turquoise to reprent art, digo for harmony, and fally vlet at the bottom for the help of close to 30 volunteers workg the attic of the Gay Communy Center San Francis, Baker was able to nstct the first draft of the now world-renowned rabow flag. It was first showsed at San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25, the sign was unveiled, participants of the para proudly waved the new symbol solidary. This multi-lored flag morphed to a banner of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr movement, which is monly referred to today as of the lors had a specific meang:Hot Pk for sexRed for lifeOrange for healgYellow for sunGreen for sereny wh natureTurquoise for artIndigo for harmonyVlet for November 27, 1978, the openly gay San Francis Cy Supervisor Harvey Milk was assassated.

The Supreme Court’s landmark cisn to make same-sex marriage a Constutnal right across the untry sparked a huge volume of rabow lored rtoons, and did that rabow flag e om, and how did e to symbolize gay pri and rights? The story is a touchg one, volvg a drag queen who would e to be known as “Bty Ross, ” huge trash bs full of dye, clanste trips to the lndromat, and the famo gay polician Harvey Milk. The rabow flag also had some nnectns wh Judy Garland, a favore figure of the gay muny who sang “Somewhere Over the Rabow” “The Wizard of Oz.