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• ARMY TO AWARD “THE GAY IS OK” RIBBON TO ENTIRE FORCE
• GAY FLAG RIBBON
• GAY PRI RABOW FLAG RIBBON
• GAY PRI RIBBON IMAG
• RAINBOW GAY PRIDE FLAG | RIBBON

ARMY TO AWARD “THE GAY IS OK” RIBBON TO ENTIRE FORCE

Army to Award “The Gay is OK” Ribbon To Entire Force. – In an effort to undo the negative fluence of more than 100 years of bigotry, harassment, timidatn, and fear of homosexuals s ranks, the Army announced yterday that every Soldier will be issued, and required to wear, the new Personnel Ribbon Diversy Experience, known more lloquially as “The Gay is OK” ribbon.

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Award after succsfully pletg mandatory “sexual orientatn and re-orientatn” trag basic trag, the ribbon monstrat “a clear mment to rightg past wrongs, prervg prent power, and ensurg the future legimacy” of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and queer muny wh the Army, said Rggold durg an terview his Pentagon office. “We have always been ‘OK wh the gay, ’” said Army Corporal Alan Miller, a native of Mobile, Alabama. You don’t thk we managed to piece together who was gay all that time?

“This whole Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal thg was a non-issue for , bee we me to terms wh gays our ranks sometime around… October 2001, when we cid we had more important thgs to worry about, like stoppg AQ om blowg the sh out of our untry aga. People thk that bee most of the Army’s enlisted members e om the ral South, and that we’re predomantly Christian, that somehow we n’t work wh our ras who are gay. “I’m not gay, I don’t want to be gay, I thk I have a grand total of maybe two gay iends.

My relig beliefs are important to me, and they say homosexualy is a s. I don’t like (homosexualy), ’s not for me, but that don’t make patible wh ary service. While tolerant of homosexualy and other alternative liftyl, some Soldiers qutn why the Army is sudnly givg out an award for basilly jt beg a cent human beg.

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Addnally, the thor isn’t gay, or a “gay ally” or even a liberal. He’s jt someone who thks ’s ridiculo that “the gays” is still an issue. I had no ia they were associated wh LGBTQ+ muni until the day I was wearg my favore rabow baby tee (RIP) and some girl waltzed up to me and announced, "Rabows are gay!

Acrdg to the History Channel, Harvey Milk, one of the untry’s first openly gay elected officials, missned artist Gilbert Baker to create the first rabow flag for San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para. Wh the help of his roommate, gay rights activist Cleve Jon, and others, Baker also signed and created an Amerin flag wh rabow strip stead of the ual red, whe and blue, and both flew over the 1978 Pri para, Refery29 of the hu of the rabow stand for a different aspect of LGBTQ+ Pri. The flag n bee “this emblem of gay vers straight, ” which he says miss the pot.

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When she was younger, she realized when she was about six that the rabow flag was associated wh queerns, bee a neighbor who intified as gay had a flag outsi of his she has embraced her sexualy, her lk to the flag has grown. “I fely avoid wearg anythg that signaled too strongly that I was gay, like rabow-prted t-shirts wh slogans, ribbons, even the button ps, ” Tyler says. “Femme visibily is a real thg the datg world, so was really important for me to add an overtly gay rabow tail to my outfs when I was drsg femme, ” Tyler says.

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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. 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. And as a stgglg drag performer who was acctomed to creatg his own garments, he was well-equipped to sew the soon-to-be inic the time, the most monly ed image for the burgeong gay rights movement was the pk triangle, a symbol ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals.

At the top was hot pk, which reprented sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow signifyg sunlight, green for nature, turquoise to reprent art, digo for harmony, and fally vlet at the bottom for the help of close to 30 volunteers workg the attic of the Gay Communy Center San Francis, Baker was able to nstct the first draft of the now world-renowned rabow flag. It was first showsed at San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25, the sign was unveiled, participants of the para proudly waved the new symbol solidary. His legacy liv on the six-lored flag that fli proudly every Gay Pri month, regnizg the liv, and lov, of LGBT people worldwi.