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WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
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.
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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. Why a lor batn at all, and not some kd of shape as a logo stead?The LGBT pri flag was vented 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay rights activist, army veteran, artist, and self-styled "gay Betsy Ross." (Baker died March of this year.) 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 year.The symbol took hold immediately.
HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
I realized I would have to make some promis orr for this to really functn as a symbol."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 viance.The 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. 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.