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Contents:
- WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
- THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG
- HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
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.
Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials the U.
THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG
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.
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HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
"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.