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WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
The rabow is the most wily regnized LGBT symbol the world. Sce 1978 beme the official symbol of gay pri! * how did the rainbow become a symbol of gay pride *
It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag.
HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
How did the rabow flag e to be and what do symbolize? And how did bee an ternatnal symbol of Gay Pri and a fight for equaly? * how did the rainbow become a symbol of gay pride *
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. The first versns of the rabow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para. 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.
RABOW, SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
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.