Filter a database of pri flags by lor, number of strip, and special shap. This ever growg list will help you intify and learn about flags you see at pri ftivals and the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny.
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UNY AND RISTANCE: THE HISTORY BEHD THE GAY PRI FLAG
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.
“Some argue that the mastream gay movement sce the 1970s has bee more polilly reformist and assiatnist, ” Greene said. “Rather than challengg norms and laws around genr and sexualy, the gay movement has argued that gay people are ‘jt like everyone else’ and should have the same rights. The problem wh creatg this kd of hierarchy of rpectabily is that empowers the most privileged gay and lbian people at the expense of members of the queer muny who are still seen as ‘viant, ’ like trans people.
Our job as gay people was to e out, to be visible, to live the tth... How did the rabow-lored Pri flag bee a universal symbol of gay pri, queer love, clivy, and tolerance?