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Contents:

• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
• GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY
• SUMMER THE CY: A GAY MUNICH WEEKEND TRIP
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Rabow Communy Center builds muny, equy, & well-beg among Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng & Intersex (LGBTQIA+) people & our alli. Addrsg ternalized homophobia, promotg rilience, & helpg youth ci when & how to more safely & bravely disclose their genr inti & sexual orientatn through:.

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CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

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. The first versns of the rabow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para.

WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?

The LGBT pri flag was vented 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay rights activist, army veteran, artist, and self-styled "gay Betsy Ross. ) He ma the flag for the Gay Freedom Pri Para that year San Francis, at the requt of Harvey Milk, a gay cy polician who was assassated later that symbol took hold immediately. "Closeted gay people have also historilly ed bright lors to signal their homosexualy to each other, as Forrt Wickman wrote Slate.

Durg the Holot, Nazis forced gay men to wear pk triangl as a symbol of sexual rabow flag was a way of takg the var lors and turng them to a herent symbol, reclaimed by the LGBT muny. As Baker told MOMA:"It was necsary to have the Rabow Flag bee up until that we had the pk triangle om the Nazis — was the symbol that they would e [to note gay people]. Judy Garland, the star of "The Wizard of Oz, " has a large followg as a gay symbol, and is famo for sgg "Somewhere Over the Rabow" the movie.

And when the Supreme Court tablished the legaly of gay marriage natnwi 2015's Obergefell v. The Whe Hoe illumated rabow lors after 2015's Supreme Court lg legalizg gay marriage.

GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY

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.

SUMMER THE CY: A GAY MUNICH WEEKEND TRIP

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. 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.

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

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. Together, the Pri Flag's six rabow lors symbolize hope, and each also has s own meang:Red: LifeOrange: HealgYellow: SunlightGreen: NatureBlue: Peace or serenyPurple: SpirLGBTQ Pri flags go beyond the classic rabow.Here's what each one meansLGBTQ glossary: Defns every good ally should knowThe history of the Gilbert Baker Pri Flag In the 1970s, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official  California, challenged activist Gilbert Baker to sign a symbol of hope for the gay muny."Harvey Milk was a iend of me, an important gay lear San Francis the ’70s, and he rried a really important msage about how important was to be visible," said Baker an terview wh the Mm of Morn Art 2015.

Durg the Holot, Nazis intified gay people ncentratn mps by makg them wear pk triangl.