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The rabow is the most wily regnized LGBT symbol the world. But there's a history about how the LGBT rabow me to be associated wh gay pri on a global sle.

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WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?

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.

HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

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.

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