Flag signs have proliferated as the celebratn of gay rights has bee more clive | The Enomist explas
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THE NEW GAY PRI FLAG, EXPLAED
The origal pri flag was created the 1970s by gay activist Gilbert Baker, iend of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California.
In late June, the Castro Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Cultural District (CQCD) San Francis voted to remend to the Castro Merchants, the bs associatn that has jurisdictn over the flagpol, that replace the origal Pri flag Harvey Milk Plaza wh a new versn of the flag that’s more clive of Black, brown, and transgenr members of the LGBTQ muny.
“[I]t was mostly low-e street queens, aga many of them Black and brown, who fought the ps the streets outsi the Stonewall Inn three years later, ” they ntued, addg that most Whe lbian and gay activists at the time nmned any type of fightg back agast police favor of a more “rpectable” image.