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GAY PRI
* origin of the gay pride flag *
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 ORIG OF THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG AND ITS MEANG
The first versns of the rabow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para. The rabow flag, which has bee a universal symbol of hope for LGBTQ people around the world, first flew San Francis’s Uned Natns Plaza for Gay Pri Day, on June 25, 1978.