Chasg the rabow: lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer youth and pri semtics - PMC

Contents:

• WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
• WHAT DO LGBTQ+ STAND FOR AND WHAT DO THE RABOW GAY PRI FLAG MEAN?
• CHASG THE RABOW: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER YOUTH AND PRI SEMTICS
• THREAD: WHY DO GAYS ASSOCIATE THEMSELV WH RABOWS?

WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?

) He ma the flag for the Gay Freedom Pri Para that year San Francis, at the requt of Harvey Milk, a gay cy polician who was assassated later that symbol took hold immediately. Durg the Holot, Nazis forced gay men to wear pk triangl as a symbol of sexual rabow flag was a way of takg the var lors and turng them to a herent symbol, reclaimed by the LGBT muny. As Baker told MOMA:"It was necsary to have the Rabow Flag bee up until that we had the pk triangle om the Nazis — was the symbol that they would e [to note gay people].

God signed the rabow to symbolize somethg far greater and far more glor than homosexualy, and if those the homosexual muny tly unrstood and embraced the symbol they are wavg their hands, they would experience te eedom and peace. He was missned to create a flag by another gay in, polician Harvey Milk, for San Francis’s annual pri cisn to enlist Baker proved serendipo, as the ia of a flag to reprent the gay and lbian muny had occurred to him two years earlier. As Baker told the Mm of Morn Art durg a 2015 terview, he had been spired by the celebratns markg Ameri’s bicentennial 1976, notg that the nstant display of stars and strip ma him realize the cultural need for a siar rallyg sign for the gay muny.

And as a stgglg drag performer who was acctomed to creatg his own garments, he was well-equipped to sew the soon-to-be inic the time, the most monly ed image for the burgeong gay rights movement was the pk triangle, a symbol ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals. At the top was hot pk, which reprented sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow signifyg sunlight, green for nature, turquoise to reprent art, digo for harmony, and fally vlet at the bottom for the help of close to 30 volunteers workg the attic of the Gay Communy Center San Francis, Baker was able to nstct the first draft of the now world-renowned rabow flag. I had no ia they were associated wh LGBTQ+ muni until the day I was wearg my favore rabow baby tee (RIP) and some girl waltzed up to me and announced, "Rabows are gay!

WHAT DO LGBTQ+ STAND FOR AND WHAT DO THE RABOW GAY PRI FLAG MEAN?

Acrdg to the History Channel, Harvey Milk, one of the untry’s first openly gay elected officials, missned artist Gilbert Baker to create the first rabow flag for San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para. Wh the help of his roommate, gay rights activist Cleve Jon, and others, Baker also signed and created an Amerin flag wh rabow strip stead of the ual red, whe and blue, and both flew over the 1978 Pri para, Refery29 of the hu of the rabow stand for a different aspect of LGBTQ+ Pri. When she was younger, she realized when she was about six that the rabow flag was associated wh queerns, bee a neighbor who intified as gay had a flag outsi of his she has embraced her sexualy, her lk to the flag has grown.

Направлено:The LGBT Communy - The Rabow Isn't YoursЭта петиция собрала 26 подписантовПочему эта петиция важнаIt is important bee God did not create the Rabow for such e to be ed as a symbol or logo for the pri of improper nduct of homosexual liftyle. Other scriptur the bible, 1 Corthians 6:9-10, Romans 1:24-27, 1 Timothy 1:10 to name a few talks about homosexualy - s unnaturalns, unlawfulns and God's wrath to such practic. Flag signs have proliferated as the celebratn of gay rights has bee more cliveLOOK UP AT a flagpole most big Amerin ci June, and you will probably see three banners: the stars and strip, the state or cy emblem and a rabow flag, which is flown to mark LGBTQ Pri month.

The first Pri march were held 1970 Chigo, Los Angel and New York Cy on the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg, which began after police officers raid a gay bar Greenwich Village New York. Acrdg to the book Sunshe and Rabows, a study of gay culture Queensland, “If you wanted to attract the attentn of the same sex, displayg a pair of bright yellow socks often did the trick. Purple also beme a popular symbol of gay pri the 1960s and 1970s, when San Francisns tried to make a symbol of “the Purple Hand” and gay Bostonians put up posters emblazoned wh a purple rho.

CHASG THE RABOW: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER YOUTH AND PRI SEMTICS

In 1978, San Francis artist Gilbert Baker signed what is believed to be the first morn gay pri flag by bg eight strip, each a different lor wh s own symbolism: pk for sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, blue for art, digo for harmony, and vlet for the human spir. Gay men me out drov for her performanc, and, om World War II forward, many the LGBT muny referred to themselv as “iends of Dorothy, ” a phrase that seems to have rived om Garland’s performance The Wizard of Oz. After artist Gilbert Baker signed the inic piece, two flags were produced and flown at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para, after which the flags went separate ways.

Dpe the origal meang, the verted triangl have been reclaimed by some the LGBTQ+ muny and are displayed wh pri or as a symbol of prott plac where gay people are still persecuted (via Time).

The rts, which saw members of the gay muny stand agast a police raid Manhattan, New York, are nsired to be the most important event the morn fight for LGBT rights the US.

THREAD: WHY DO GAYS ASSOCIATE THEMSELV WH RABOWS?

Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC5378595NIHMSID: NIHMS843014AbstractWhile the pri rabow has been part of polil and social terventn for s, few have rearched how lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer young people perceive and e the symbol. As part of a larger study on supportive lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer youth environments, we nducted 66 go-along terviews wh lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer youth people om Massachetts, Mnota and Brish Columbia. Keywords: Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, LGBT, youth, wellbeg, semtics, rabow, pri flagIntroductnLbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer youth face greater risk of physil and mental health hazards than their heterosexual peers, cludg substance abe, sexual risk-takg, suicidaly and prsn (D’Augelli 2003; Eisenberg and Rnick 2006; Friedman et al.

Factors fluencg the negative health out clu discrimatn, harassment and physil harm, lack of fay and social support and ternalised homophobia, which culmate experienc of mory strs, or a unique set of strsors experienced by those on society’s margs (Chard et al. Even more signifint are the protective effects of support om fay, iends, teachers and muny members, and pecially the support of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer peers (Doty et al.

2015) important nuance to mory strs arguments, a study of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer youth’s higher rat of self-stctive behavrs, McDermott, Roen and Surfield (2008) argue that is the general ntext of environmental homophobia that is distrsg to youth, not the sexual mory inti themselv.