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Contents:

• WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
• GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
• GAY RIGHTS

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?

1 Gilbert Baker Pri FlagWikimedia CommonsIn 1978, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office California, asked artist Gilbert Baker to create a Pri flag. A source told Philalphia Magaze, “Wh all of the Black and Brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny.

It was created 1977 by Gilbert Baker, an artist, activist, and openly gay ary veteran. As the mand for the flag started to rise after the assassatn of gay San Francis Cy Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978. The addn of black and brown strip to the tradnal pri flag symbolized people of lor, who historilly were not always clud aspects of the mastream gay rights movement.

For example, someone uld be gay one day, then be asexual the next, then polysexual the next.

GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

This morn gay men’s pri flag is a revamp of an earlier gay men’s pri flag that featured a range of blue ton. The updated flag is meant to be clive of a much wi range of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg men.

The term is scribed as a rponse to gay pri adopted by var groups (later uned unr the moniker LGBT) the early 1970s, or to the acmodatns provid to gay pri iativ.

The Straight Ally flag is g the black-whe "lors" of the heterosexual flag as a field, adds a large rabow lored "A" (for "Ally") to dite straight support for the Gay Pri/Equal Marriage movement. A straight ally or heterosexual ally is a heterosexual and/or cisgenr person who supports equal civil rights, genr equaly, LGBT social movements, and challeng homophobia, biphobia and transphobia.

GAY RIGHTS

Origal pri flag — June 1978The first rabow pri flag was signed Gilbert Barker and unveiled durg the San Francis Gay Freedom Day on June 25, 1978. Philly Mag reported that a source volved wh the event said, “The black and brown strip are an clnary way to highlight Black and brown LGBTQIA members wh our muny.”“Wh all of the black and brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny,” the statement ntued. Acrdg to TriPri, the flag is meant to reprent the QPOC muny, pecially as relat to the ti that have bound the Black and queer muni sce the ceptn of the gay liberatn movement.

Today, Two-Spired people are dividuals that intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, other genred dividuals, as well as third or fourth genred dividuals who live and intify between the worlds and genrs. Bear pri flagThe bear pri flag celebrat a subculture of the LGBTQ muny that refers to gay or bisexual men who have facial and/or body hair and embrace fortably wh masculy and their bodi, acrdg to Montclair State Universy. The origal Pri Flag was created 1978 after activist Harvey Milk asked artist Gilbert Baker to sign a symbol of gay pri.

One such flag is the Gay Men’s Pri Flag – a flag you might already have seen flown at any number of pri ftivals around the world, om New Orleans to Montreal…and everywhere between!