Streets around the world will be cked rabows this week as the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny celebrat LGBT Pri Month. Why...
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- WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
- GAYS DIDN’T “STEAL” THE RABOW OR THE WORD
- WHAT THE GAY PRI MOVEMENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GOD’S RABOW
- GAY PRI
- A CONSERVATIVE SAID "LGBTS STOLE THE RABOW FROM GOD" AND IT TURNED INTO A GLOR, GAY MEME
- DID YOU KNOW THAT THE ‘GAY-PRI’ FLAG ACTUALLY MOCKS GOD? SEE HOW| BIBLIL HISTORY
WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969. * when did gay pride start using the rainbow *
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. 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.
GAYS DIDN’T “STEAL” THE RABOW OR THE WORD
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.
WHAT THE GAY PRI MOVEMENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GOD’S RABOW
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. Gilbert Baker, the man creded wh pneerg the celebratory rabow flag flyg over the gay movement, recently ld his craft, notg that ’s somethg betiful.
GAY PRI
” Acrdg to Baker, the God of the Bible knows the stggle of gays and lbians, and that is where he fds hope. God do ed know the ternal and social battl of gays and lbians, but the qutn is, Do he approve of their practice?
God signed the rabow to symbolize somethg far greater and far more glor than homosexualy, and if those the homosexual muny tly unrstood and embraced the symbol they are wavg their hands, they would experience te eedom and peace. In that day the lofty pri of all men, cludg gay pri, will be brought low, and the Lord alone will be glorly exalted. The fact that he has reaed om sendg another flood to stroy the world do not mean that he accepts homosexual practic, or any other kd of s.
A CONSERVATIVE SAID "LGBTS STOLE THE RABOW FROM GOD" AND IT TURNED INTO A GLOR, GAY MEME
Rather, this kd of mercy shows that God is patiently wag for all, cludg homosexuals, to believe. Let pray that those the homosexual muny would look past the rabow to the fal solutn for God’s anger towards s. The LGBT pri flag was vented 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay rights activist, army veteran, artist, and self-styled "gay Betsy Ross.
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE ‘GAY-PRI’ FLAG ACTUALLY MOCKS GOD? SEE HOW| BIBLIL HISTORY
) 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.
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 '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.