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WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE RABOW LORS? HERE'S A GUI TO PRI FLAG SYMBOLISM BY KTVU STAFF PUBLISHED JUNE 4, 2021 UPDATED 12:43PM PRI KTVU FOX 2 SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE FILE ART (PHOTO BY JT SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAG) EXPAND SAN FRANCISCO - THE RABOW FLAG IS KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD AS A SYMBOL OF LGBTQ PRI. BUT THERE ARE ALSO MULTIPLE VARIATNS REPRENTG DIFFERENT QUEER MUNI THAT YOU MAY NOT BE FAIAR WH. THE TRADNAL RABOW FLAG HAS ALSO UNRGONE MULTIPLE EVOLUTNS THROUGH THE S TO BE MORE CLIVE. HERE IS YOUR GUI TO SOME OF THE MANY DIFFERENT PRI FLAGS AND WHAT THEY MEAN. GILBERT BAKER PRI FLAG IN 1978, ARTIST AND GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST GILBERT BAKER SIGNED THIS RABOW FLAG AS A SYMBOL OF PRI FOR THE GAY MUNY. IT'S SCE BEE A WORLDWI SYMBOL OF LGBTQ PRI. EACH LOR CELEBRAT AN ASPECT OF QUEER PRI: HOT PK = SEXRED = LIFEORANGE = HEALGYELLOW = SUNLIGHTGREEN = NATURETURQUOISE = MAGIC/ARTINDIGO = SERENYVLET = SPIR 1978-1999 PRI FLAG GILBERT BAKER REFERRED TO THIS VERSN OF HIS ORIGAL PRI FLAG AS THE "MERCIAL" ERATN, BEE WAS PRODUCED WHOUT THE HOT PK STRIPE DUE TO A SHORTAGE OF FABRIC THAT LOR AT THE TIME. DEMAND FOR THE PRI FLAG ALSO SURGED AFTER THE 1978 ASSASSATN OF HARVEY MILK, NTRIBUTG TO THE SUPPLY SHORTAGE. TRADNAL GAY PRI FLAG IN 1979, THE SIX-LORED FLAG BEME A MON VERSN HUNG AROUND SAN FRANCIS. HAVG AN ODD NUMBER OF LORS LED TO TURQUOISE BEG DROPPED. IT MAY BE THE MOST REGNIZABLE ERATN OF THE PRI FLAG. PHILALPHIA PEOPLE OF COLOR INCLIVE FLAG IN 2017, THE CY OF PHILALPHIA ADD BLACK AND BROWN TO THE SIX-LOR PRI FLAG TO BE MORE CLIVE OF THE QUEER PEOPLE MUNI OF LOR WHO ARE OFTEN NOT FULLY CLUD THE LGBT MUNY. PROGRS PRI FLAG TAKG THE PHILALPHIA PRI FLAG ONE STEP FURTHER, THE FOLLOWG YEAR THE PROGRS PRI FLAG WAS SIGNED TO ADD A CHEVRON FEATURG BLACK, BROWN, BLUE, PK, AND WHE STRIP TO SYMBOLIZE THE CLN OF MARGALIZED MUNI OF LOR, TRANS PEOPLE, AND THOSE LIVG WH OR WHO HAVE DIED OM HIV/AIDS. THE CHEVRON ARROW SHAPE REPRENTS MOVG FORWARD AND MAKG PROGRS THE MUNY. BISEXUAL PRI FLAG INSPIRED BY ANOTHER SYMBOL OF BISEXUALY (TWO OVERLAPPG PK AND BLUE TRIANGL), THIS FLAG REPRENTS THE TERSECTN OF TRADNALLY MALE AND FEMALE LORS. PANSEXUAL FLAG THE PK REPRENTS WOMEN-INTIFYG PEOPLE, YELLOW IS FOR NON-BARY AND GENR-NONNFORMG PEOPLE, AND THE BLUE IS FOR MALE-INTIFYG PEOPLE. THE PANSEXUAL PRI FLAG SURFACED ON THE TER AROUND 2010, ACRDG TO , AS A WAY TO DISTGUISH THE MUNY OM BISEXUALY. IT BRGS VISIBILY TO PANSEXUAL PEOPLE WHO HAVE ROMANTIC ATTRACTNS WH PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT GENRS AND SEXUALI. ASEXUAL FLAG THIS FLAG MIMICS OF THE LOGO FOR THE ASEXUAL VISIBILY AND EDUTN NETWORK. IT REPRENTS MANY INTI OF THE ASEXUAL MUNY, CLUDG ASEXUALS AND MI-SEXUALS (PEOPLE WHO DON'T EXPERIENCE SEXUAL ATTRACTN UNLS THEY HAVE AN EMOTNAL NNECTN FIRST). THE WHE STRIPE REPRENTS PARTNERS AND ALLI OF THE ASEXUAL MUNY AND PURPLE REPRENTS UNY OF THE ENTIRE ASEXUAL MUNY. TRANSGENR PRI FLAG SCE S BUT 2000, THE TRANS PRI FLAG HAS BEE THE MOST REGNIZABLE SYMBOL OF THE TRANSGENR MUNY. BLUE REPRENTS MALE-INTIFYG DIVIDUALS, PK REPRENTS FEMALE-INTIFYG DIVIDUALS, AND WHE REPRENTS PEOPLE WHO ARE TERSEX, TRANSNG, NON-BARY, OR HAVG AN UNFED GENR. LBIAN PRI FLAG THERE HAVE BEEN VAR ERATNS OF FLAGS REPRENTG DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE LBIAN MUNY. THE "PK" LBIAN PRI FLAG HAS SIX SHAS OF RED AND PK LORS WH A WHE BAR THE MIDDLE. SOMETIM THE FLAG IS DISPLAYED WH A RED KISS TO REPRENT "LIPSTICK LBIANS" BUT WAS NOT AS WILY ADOPTED. THERE ARE ALSO OTHER VARIATNS OF THE LBIAN FLAG, CLUDG ON FOR BUTCH LBIANS AND LABRYS LBIANS. POLYSEXUAL FLAG UNLIKE PANSEXUALS, POLYSEXUAL PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO MULTIPLE GENRS BUT NOT ALL GENRS. THE LORS AND SIGN OF THE FLAG ARE BASED OFF THE BISEXUAL AND PANSEXUAL FLAGS. IT BORROWS THE BLUE AND PK, AND REPLAC THE PURPLE AND YELLOW STRIP WH A GREEN ONE TO REPRENT ATTRACTN TO PEOPLE WHO INTIFY OUTSI THE TRADNAL MALE-FEMALE BARY. INTERSEX PRI FLAG THE TERSEX PRI FLAG WAS SIGNED BY MAN CARPENTER OF INTERSEX HUMAN RIGHTS ATRALIA 2013. IT THE LORS YELLOW AND PURPLE STEAD OF THE GENRED LORS OF PK AND BLUE. THE UNBROKEN CIRCLE REPRENTS THE WHOLENS OF TERSEX PEOPLE, WHO ARE BORN WH REPRODUCTIVE OR SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS OUTSI OF THE SOCIALLY NSTCTED FNS OF FEMALE OR MALE. GENRFLUID PRI FLAG THIS FLAG GIV VISIBILY TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE A GENR EXPRSN OR INTY THAT IS NOT NSTANT OR FIXED. PK REPRENTS FEMY; WHE REPRENTS LACK OF GENR; PURPLE REPRENTS A BATN OF BOTH MASCULY AND FEMY; BLACK REPRENTS ALL GENRS, CLUDG GENRS THAT DO NOT ALIGN WH FEMY OR MASCULY; BLUE REPRENTS MASCULY. GENRQUEER PRI FLAG DIGNED 2011 BY MARILYN ROXIE, THE FLAG WAS MA TO CREATE VISIBILY FOR THE GENRQUEER AND NON-BARY MUNI. ACRDG TO ROXIE, LAVENR REPRENTS A MIX OF GENRED LORS, PK AND BLUE. WHE IS FOR AGENR DIVIDUALS. AND DARK CHARTRSE IS "THE VERSE OF LAVENR; MEANT TO REPRENT THOSE WHOSE INTI WHICH ARE FED OUTSI OF AND WHOUT REFERENCE TO THE BARY." NON-BARY PRI FLAG THIS FLAG WAS CREATED 2014 BY 17-YEAR-OLD KYE ROWAN TO FLY ALONGSI THE GENRQUEER FLAG AS A SYMBOL OF NON-BARY PEOPLE WHO FELT THEY DO NOT F TO THE TRADNAL MALE-FEMALE GENR BARY. THE YELLOW SYMBOLIZ GENR OUTSI A BARY. WHE REPRENTS THOSE WH MANY OR ALL GENRS. PURPLE REPRENTS PEOPLE WHO ARE BOTH BARY MALE AND FEMALE OR FLUID BETWEEN THEM. AND BLACK IS FOR THE AGENR MUNY. AGENR PRI FLAG THE AGENR PRI FLAG CREATED 2014 HAS SEVEN HORIZONTAL STRIP. THE BLACK AND WHE STRIP REPRENT AN ABSENCE OF GENR, THE GRAY REPRENTS SEMI-GENRLSNS, AND THE CENTRAL GREEN STRIPE REPRENTS NON-BARY DIVIDUALS. SOURCE: ; PROMOTIONS
Pri Month celebratns 2019 are particularly special as they memorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall rts, a seri of cints New York Cy that lnched the gay liberatn movement of the '70s and '80s—and fed a path for LGBTQ acceptance. It was ially created by the late artist and activist Gilbert Baker 1978 followg the electn of Harvey Milk, the first-ever gay person to be elected to office as San Francis cy supervisor California.
“As a muny, both lol and ternatnal, gay people were the midst of an upheaval, a battle for equal rights, a shift stat where we were now mandg power, takg , ” Baker wrote his memoir. The eight-stripe Gilbert Baker flag first flew at the 1978 San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para, and by 1969, the six-stripe flag was stuted as the most popular versn.
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.