Inspired by a te story, 'Red Rabow' is the story of three socialist gay activists om Wt Berl who are mistakenly ved to a state vis to Mosw 1979, at a time when homosexualy the Soviet Unn was illegal.
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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. 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. Red Rabow, a perd drama om Rsia about homosexual activists the 1970s, has won this year’s bt project award om televisn ftival Seri Mania.
The project, spired by a te story, follows the seri of mistak and misunrstandgs that led Rsian officials to ve three young, gay and votedly socialist activists om Wt Berl to Mosw 1979. Robbie, Stef and Arlene are lighted to be visg their munist utopia, unaware that homosexualy is illegal the USSR. Thgs are plited when Robbie meets and falls love wh Maxim, a closeted gay man who is beg blackmailed by the KGB to act as an rmant on homosexuals.