A Man wh a Rabow Flag Attendg the Gay Pri Para Also Known As Christopher Street Day CSD Munich, Germany. Edorial Photo - Image of bavaria, cheerful: 151740866

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• LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’
• GAY PRI RABOW FLAG VS GOD'S RABOW
• A MAN WH A RABOW FLAG ATTENDG THE GAY PRI PARA ALSO KNOWN AS CHRISTOPHER STREET DAY CSD MUNICH, GERMANY.
• GAY PRI
• YOUNG WOMAN WEARG A RABOW FLAG ATTENDG THE GAY PRI PARA ALSO KNOWN AS CHRISTOPHER STREET DAY CSD MUNICH, GERMANY

LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’

Why uldn't the gay pri flag clu digo?

It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag.

GAY PRI RABOW FLAG VS GOD'S RABOW

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. The origal Rabow Flag The first Rabow Flag was signed 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay activist livg San Francis.

At the time the gay and lbian movement was wily reprented by a pk triangle logo, but there was disquiet about this some quarters - cludg om Baker - bee of s lks to the symbol which had been ed to intify homosexual prisoners Nazi mps. Baker signed the Rabow Flag for the 1978 San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para - but was a different versn to the one we know today.

A MAN WH A RABOW FLAG ATTENDG THE GAY PRI PARA ALSO KNOWN AS CHRISTOPHER STREET DAY CSD MUNICH, GERMANY.

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. This triangle, however, had a load, anti-gay history.

GAY PRI

Throughout the Holot, the Nazis forced those whom they labeled as gay to wear verted pk triangle badg, jt as they forced Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David. In the late 1970s, the pk triangle was somewhat reclaimed by the gay muny. "Gay people wear the pk triangle today as a remr of the past and a pledge that history will not repeat self, " read one 1977 letter to the edor Time.

There were long-haired, lhe girls belly-dance get-ups, pk-haired punks safety-pned together, hippie suburban, movie stars so betiful they left you dumbstck, mcle gayboys wh perfect mtach, butch dyk blue jeans, and fairi of all genrs thrift-store drs … We were all a swirl of lor and light. 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. The way that bisexual people n blend to the straight muny and the gay muny.

YOUNG WOMAN WEARG A RABOW FLAG ATTENDG THE GAY PRI PARA ALSO KNOWN AS CHRISTOPHER STREET DAY CSD MUNICH, GERMANY

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