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THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG
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. 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. This multi-lored flag morphed to a banner of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr movement, which is monly referred to today as of the lors had a specific meang:Hot Pk for sexRed for lifeOrange for healgYellow for sunGreen for sereny wh natureTurquoise for artIndigo for harmonyVlet for November 27, 1978, the openly gay San Francis Cy Supervisor Harvey Milk was assassated.