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WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
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.
One example of this manifted by queer people — often gay men — choosg to wear bright lors orr to signal to other men that they were queer. 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.
WHAT DO LGBTQ+ STAND FOR AND WHAT DO THE RABOW GAY PRI FLAG MEAN?
The first versns of the rabow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para.