Why the Gay Pri Flag Still Matters

Contents:

• WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
• WHY THE RABOW FLAG IS DIVIDG THE LGBTQ COMMUNY RABOW LOURS WASH OVER THE CROWD DURG A PERFORMANCE BY ALL SATS AT MANCHTER PRI 2014 | © JOEL GOODMAN/LNP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK DARREN STT GENR & INTY EDOR 30 JANUARY 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT MANCHTER PRI HAS ADOPTED A NEW FLAG, AND PEOPLE AREN’T HAPPY. THE INIC RABOW FLAG HELPED FE THE MORN-DAY PRI MOVEMENT, BUT NOW A VARIATN ON THE SIGN IS DIVIDG . VIEW ALL TRIPS THE HISTORY OF THE RABOW FLAG THE RABOW FLAG, ALSO KNOWN AS THE PRI FLAG, IS SYNONYMO WH THE LGBTQ MUNY ALL OVER THE WORLD. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP INDIA TURKEY SPA MOROC EGYPT MEXI JAPAN BALI ICELAND ECUADOR THAILAND GREECE SOUTH AI CROATIA ORIGALLY CREATED 1978 BY SAN FRANCIS ARTIST GILBERT BAKER AS PART OF A LLECTIVE, ’S BEE A SYMBOL OF HOPE, AS WELL AS A CULTURAL SHORTCUT TO REPRENT ALL THGS LGBTQ. IN 2019, MANCHTER PRI ANNOUNCED THAT WOULD BE ADOPTG A NEW ERATN OF THE FAMO FLAG AS PART OF WIR CHANG S ANNUAL CELEBRATNS. THIS NEW VERSN, ORIGALLY CREATED 2017, CLUS BLACK AND BROWN STRIP ORR TO BETTER REGNISE BAME (BLACK, ASIAN AND MORY ETHNIC) LGBTQ PEOPLE. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP WHEN THE BBC AND LEADG GAY MAGAZE ATTU REPORTED ON THE STORY, HUNDREDS OF MENTS WERE POSTED – LARGELY NOUNCG THE CHANGE. MARCHERS RRY RABOW FLAGS AT THE 2013 PRI LONDON PARA | © PL BROWN / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO REFLECTG THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBTQ MUNY AT FIRST, THE FLAG FEATURED EIGHT DIFFERENT LOURS. BAKER TEND THE TO “REFLECT THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBT MUNY.” BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. THE ORIGAL LOURS WERE RED TO REPRENT LIFE, ORANGE FOR HEALG, YELLOW FOR SUNLIGHT, GREEN FOR NATURE, DIGO FOR SERENY, VLET FOR SPIR – BUT HOT PK (REPRENTG SEX) AND TURQUOISE (FOR MAGIC AND ART) WERE REMOVED BEE OF DIFFICULTY WH MANUFACTURG AT THE TIME. INDIGO AND TURQUOISE WERE LATER MERGED TO BEE ROYAL BLUE – PLETG THE TRADNAL SIX-STRIPE VERSN THAT HAS BEE MONPLACE SCE 1979. IT IS THIS ORIGAL TERPRETATN – WHICH WAS TEND TO CLU EVERYONE, REGARDLS OF RACE OR GENR – WHICH HAS LEFT PEOPLE QUTNG THE CISN AS AT NO POT WERE ANY OF THE LOURS MEANT TO REPRENT SK LOUR. SAME-SEX SUPPORTER HOLDG RABOW FLAG AT GAY PRI MARCH ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXI | © KATHARE ANDRTIS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO HOW THE PRI FLAG HAS CHANGED OVER FOUR S THE SIGN CURRENTLY G NTROVERSY SOME QUARTERS WAS ADOPTED BY THE CY OF PHILALPHIA 2017 AS PART OF THE MORE COLOR MORE PRI MPAIGN. IT ADD BLACK AND BROWN STRIP TO THE TOP OF THE EXISTG FLAG AND WAS, AT THE TIME, DIVISIVE TO MANY, CLUDG A IEND OF BAKER’S, CHARLEY BEAL, WHO TOLD NBC: “THE STRIP WERE NOT CHOSEN FOR SK LOUR – THEY WERE CHOSEN TO REFLECT THE SPECTM OF LOUR NATURE.” IT’S NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT CHANG HAVE BEEN MA TO THE FLAG, AND ’S NOT EVEN THE MOST RECENT. A PREV VARIATN CLUD A BLACK STRIPE FOR THOSE LOST TO AIDS, AND 2018 SIGNER DANIEL QUASAR UPDATED THE PHILALPHIA VERSN TO HIGHLIGHT TRANS RIGHTS AND ISSU. IN THIS VERSN THE SIX-STRIPE SIGN REMAS BUT HAS A CHEVRON CLUDG ADD LOURS AS AN ARROW THAT “POTS TO THE RIGHT TO SHOW FORWARD MOVEMENT, WHILE BEG ALONG THE LEFT EDGE SHOWS THAT PROGRS STILL NEEDS TO BE MA,” QUASAR HAS SAID. RPONSE TO CRICISM OM MANCHTER PRI THE CHANGE BY MANCHTER PRI – THE FIRST UK PRI TO E THE FLAG – HAS BEEN WELED BY MANY, WH MANY OTHER MENTERS ONLE POTG OUT THE FLAG WAS NEVER TEND TO BE ABOUT RACE. CHIEF EXECUTIVE MARK FLETCHER RPOND TO THE MENTS: “PRI IS FOR EVERYONE AND WE WANT TO CELEBRATE THE DIFFERENC AND THIS WAS OUR WAY OF DOG . I HOPE THAT THOSE WHO DON’T YET SEE THE NEED WILL UNRSTAND OUR REASONS FOR MAKG THIS CHANGE AND GROW TO LOVE .” A SCENE OM A GAY PRI PARA MANCHTER, ENGLAND | © PL BROWN / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO WHAT THE ORIGAL PRI FLAG CREATOR TEND THE PRI FLAG, LIKE THE LGBTQ MUNY, WILL NTUE TO EVOLVE. IT’S SOMETHG THAT THE ORIGAL CREATOR OF THE FLAG, BAKER, WAS ONLY TOO AWARE OF. “IT’S NOT ABOUT CHANGG OR MOVG THE FABRIC, OR THE LOURS, ’S ABOUT THE MEANG AND TERPRETATNS OF THAT ARE CHANGG AND EVOLVG,” HE TOLD INDY 100 EDOR RYAN JOHN BUTCHER 2016. THE FLAG’S SIGNER, GILBERT BAKER, HELPS RRY A 250-METRE-LONG FLAG AT THE STOCKHOLM PRI PARA 2003 | © FREDRIK PERSSON/EPA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK “WHEN I MA THE RABOW FLAG 1978, WAS A GAY LIBERATN FLAG. THE NEXT YEAR 1979, WAS A LBIAN LIBERATN FLAG. AND THEN BEME SOMETHG FOR BISEXUALY AND TRANSSEXUALY. IT REFLECTS HOW WE’VE CHANGED AND HOW WE’RE NTUG TO CHANGE – AND SO I’VE PROMISED TO BE PART OF THAT, AND HEAR THE STORI AROUND THE WORLD OM PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT MEANS TO THEM, AND HOW THEY’RE G . IT MAK ME HAPPY TO SEE HOW PEOPLE HAVE RPORATED TO THEIR OWN LIV AND MUNI.” VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• WHAT DO LGBTQ+ STAND FOR AND WHAT DO THE RABOW GAY PRI FLAG MEAN?
• WHY THE GAY PRI FLAG STILL MATTERS

WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?

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.

It was first showsed at San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25, the sign was unveiled, participants of the para proudly waved the new symbol solidary.

WHY THE RABOW FLAG IS DIVIDG THE LGBTQ COMMUNY RABOW LOURS WASH OVER THE CROWD DURG A PERFORMANCE BY ALL SATS AT MANCHTER PRI 2014 | © JOEL GOODMAN/LNP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK DARREN STT GENR & INTY EDOR 30 JANUARY 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT MANCHTER PRI HAS ADOPTED A NEW FLAG, AND PEOPLE AREN’T HAPPY. THE INIC RABOW FLAG HELPED FE THE MORN-DAY PRI MOVEMENT, BUT NOW A VARIATN ON THE SIGN IS DIVIDG . VIEW ALL TRIPS THE HISTORY OF THE RABOW FLAG THE RABOW FLAG, ALSO KNOWN AS THE PRI FLAG, IS SYNONYMO WH THE LGBTQ MUNY ALL OVER THE WORLD. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP INDIA TURKEY SPA MOROC EGYPT MEXI JAPAN BALI ICELAND ECUADOR THAILAND GREECE SOUTH AI CROATIA ORIGALLY CREATED 1978 BY SAN FRANCIS ARTIST GILBERT BAKER AS PART OF A LLECTIVE, ’S BEE A SYMBOL OF HOPE, AS WELL AS A CULTURAL SHORTCUT TO REPRENT ALL THGS LGBTQ. IN 2019, MANCHTER PRI ANNOUNCED THAT WOULD BE ADOPTG A NEW ERATN OF THE FAMO FLAG AS PART OF WIR CHANG S ANNUAL CELEBRATNS. THIS NEW VERSN, ORIGALLY CREATED 2017, CLUS BLACK AND BROWN STRIP ORR TO BETTER REGNISE BAME (BLACK, ASIAN AND MORY ETHNIC) LGBTQ PEOPLE. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP WHEN THE BBC AND LEADG GAY MAGAZE ATTU REPORTED ON THE STORY, HUNDREDS OF MENTS WERE POSTED – LARGELY NOUNCG THE CHANGE. MARCHERS RRY RABOW FLAGS AT THE 2013 PRI LONDON PARA | © PL BROWN / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO REFLECTG THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBTQ MUNY AT FIRST, THE FLAG FEATURED EIGHT DIFFERENT LOURS. BAKER TEND THE TO “REFLECT THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBT MUNY.” BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. THE ORIGAL LOURS WERE RED TO REPRENT LIFE, ORANGE FOR HEALG, YELLOW FOR SUNLIGHT, GREEN FOR NATURE, DIGO FOR SERENY, VLET FOR SPIR – BUT HOT PK (REPRENTG SEX) AND TURQUOISE (FOR MAGIC AND ART) WERE REMOVED BEE OF DIFFICULTY WH MANUFACTURG AT THE TIME. INDIGO AND TURQUOISE WERE LATER MERGED TO BEE ROYAL BLUE – PLETG THE TRADNAL SIX-STRIPE VERSN THAT HAS BEE MONPLACE SCE 1979. IT IS THIS ORIGAL TERPRETATN – WHICH WAS TEND TO CLU EVERYONE, REGARDLS OF RACE OR GENR – WHICH HAS LEFT PEOPLE QUTNG THE CISN AS AT NO POT WERE ANY OF THE LOURS MEANT TO REPRENT SK LOUR. SAME-SEX SUPPORTER HOLDG RABOW FLAG AT GAY PRI MARCH ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXI | © KATHARE ANDRTIS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO HOW THE PRI FLAG HAS CHANGED OVER FOUR S THE SIGN CURRENTLY G NTROVERSY SOME QUARTERS WAS ADOPTED BY THE CY OF PHILALPHIA 2017 AS PART OF THE MORE COLOR MORE PRI MPAIGN. IT ADD BLACK AND BROWN STRIP TO THE TOP OF THE EXISTG FLAG AND WAS, AT THE TIME, DIVISIVE TO MANY, CLUDG A IEND OF BAKER’S, CHARLEY BEAL, WHO TOLD NBC: “THE STRIP WERE NOT CHOSEN FOR SK LOUR – THEY WERE CHOSEN TO REFLECT THE SPECTM OF LOUR NATURE.” IT’S NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT CHANG HAVE BEEN MA TO THE FLAG, AND ’S NOT EVEN THE MOST RECENT. A PREV VARIATN CLUD A BLACK STRIPE FOR THOSE LOST TO AIDS, AND 2018 SIGNER DANIEL QUASAR UPDATED THE PHILALPHIA VERSN TO HIGHLIGHT TRANS RIGHTS AND ISSU. IN THIS VERSN THE SIX-STRIPE SIGN REMAS BUT HAS A CHEVRON CLUDG ADD LOURS AS AN ARROW THAT “POTS TO THE RIGHT TO SHOW FORWARD MOVEMENT, WHILE BEG ALONG THE LEFT EDGE SHOWS THAT PROGRS STILL NEEDS TO BE MA,” QUASAR HAS SAID. RPONSE TO CRICISM OM MANCHTER PRI THE CHANGE BY MANCHTER PRI – THE FIRST UK PRI TO E THE FLAG – HAS BEEN WELED BY MANY, WH MANY OTHER MENTERS ONLE POTG OUT THE FLAG WAS NEVER TEND TO BE ABOUT RACE. CHIEF EXECUTIVE MARK FLETCHER RPOND TO THE MENTS: “PRI IS FOR EVERYONE AND WE WANT TO CELEBRATE THE DIFFERENC AND THIS WAS OUR WAY OF DOG . I HOPE THAT THOSE WHO DON’T YET SEE THE NEED WILL UNRSTAND OUR REASONS FOR MAKG THIS CHANGE AND GROW TO LOVE .” A SCENE OM A GAY PRI PARA MANCHTER, ENGLAND | © PL BROWN / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO WHAT THE ORIGAL PRI FLAG CREATOR TEND THE PRI FLAG, LIKE THE LGBTQ MUNY, WILL NTUE TO EVOLVE. IT’S SOMETHG THAT THE ORIGAL CREATOR OF THE FLAG, BAKER, WAS ONLY TOO AWARE OF. “IT’S NOT ABOUT CHANGG OR MOVG THE FABRIC, OR THE LOURS, ’S ABOUT THE MEANG AND TERPRETATNS OF THAT ARE CHANGG AND EVOLVG,” HE TOLD INDY 100 EDOR RYAN JOHN BUTCHER 2016. THE FLAG’S SIGNER, GILBERT BAKER, HELPS RRY A 250-METRE-LONG FLAG AT THE STOCKHOLM PRI PARA 2003 | © FREDRIK PERSSON/EPA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK “WHEN I MA THE RABOW FLAG 1978, WAS A GAY LIBERATN FLAG. THE NEXT YEAR 1979, WAS A LBIAN LIBERATN FLAG. AND THEN BEME SOMETHG FOR BISEXUALY AND TRANSSEXUALY. IT REFLECTS HOW WE’VE CHANGED AND HOW WE’RE NTUG TO CHANGE – AND SO I’VE PROMISED TO BE PART OF THAT, AND HEAR THE STORI AROUND THE WORLD OM PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT MEANS TO THEM, AND HOW THEY’RE G . IT MAK ME HAPPY TO SEE HOW PEOPLE HAVE RPORATED TO THEIR OWN LIV AND MUNI.” VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

His legacy liv on the six-lored flag that fli proudly every Gay Pri month, regnizg the liv, and lov, of LGBT people worldwi. It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag.

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

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.

WHY THE GAY PRI FLAG STILL MATTERS

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. Most likely, you thk of homosexualy or the wir LGBT movement.

Gilbert Baker, the man creded wh pneerg the celebratory rabow flag flyg over the gay movement, recently ld his craft, notg that ’s somethg betiful. ” Acrdg to Baker, the God of the Bible knows the stggle of gays and lbians, and that is where he fds hope.