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Contents:

• UNY AND RISTANCE: THE HISTORY BEHD THE GAY PRI FLAG
• LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’
• GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
• WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
• SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE
• GAY PRI
• WHY THE GAY PRI FLAG STILL MATTERS

UNY AND RISTANCE: THE HISTORY BEHD THE GAY PRI FLAG

1 Gilbert Baker Pri FlagWikimedia CommonsIn 1978, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office California, asked artist Gilbert Baker to create a Pri flag. A source told Philalphia Magaze, “Wh all of the Black and Brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny. 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.

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

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" The origal Pri Flag was flown for the first time at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para celebratn on June 25, 1978.

GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

Our job as gay people was to e out, to be visible, to live the tth... How did the rabow-lored Pri flag bee a universal symbol of gay pri, queer love, clivy, and tolerance?

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?

As a muny, both lol and ternatnal, gay people were the midst of an upheaval, a battle for equal rights, a shift stat where we were now mandg power, takg . In 1978, Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man, signed the first rabow flag to reprent the gay muny at the requt of San Francis-based polician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay official elected to office. I thought a gay natn should have a flag too, to proclaim s own ia of power.

The rabow flag first ma s but at the 1978 San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25, but wasn’t until 1994 that the flag was tly tablished as a unifyg symbol for gay pri. It celebrat gay pri, muny, queer love, self-love, clivy, diversy, ristance, uny, acceptance, awarens, tolerance, eedom, power, hope, and so much more. The rabow pri flag was first signed 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay rights activist and artist om the Uned Stat of Ameri.

SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE

Baker was approached by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials the Uned Stat, to create a symbol that would reprent the gay muny. The rabow flag quickly gaed populary as a symbol of gay pri and solidary. It was flown at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para 1978, and soon after, beme an ternatnal symbol of LGBTQ+ rights.

The Bear Pri Flag was created 1995 and is a symbol of the bear muny, which clus gay, bisexual, and transgenr men who are typilly larger and hairier than the average (gay) man.

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WHY THE GAY PRI FLAG STILL MATTERS

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