The Internatnal Homomonument, a monument that honors people persecuted for their sexual orientatn, was vandalized wh anti-gay graffi.
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- LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’
- ANTI-GAY GRAFFI FOUND ON GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE
- GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
- GAY RIGHTS
LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’
The anizatn behd a proment memorial to the LGBTQI+ muny said their Internatnal Homomonument on the Koekamp The Hague was vered wh drawgs and anti-gay slogans. The foundatn rponsible for the memorial, IHDH, said on Tuday morng that bench the lors of the rabow flag there were also faced. * flag of the gay community *
As the mand for the flag started to rise after the assassatn of gay San Francis Cy Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978. The addn of black and brown strip to the tradnal pri flag symbolized people of lor, who historilly were not always clud aspects of the mastream gay rights movement. This morn gay men’s pri flag is a revamp of an earlier gay men’s pri flag that featured a range of blue ton.
The updated flag is meant to be clive of a much wi range of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg men.
ANTI-GAY GRAFFI FOUND ON GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE
* flag of the gay community *
The term is scribed as a rponse to gay pri adopted by var groups (later uned unr the moniker LGBT) the early 1970s, or to the acmodatns provid to gay pri iativ. The Straight Ally flag is g the black-whe "lors" of the heterosexual flag as a field, adds a large rabow lored "A" (for "Ally") to dite straight support for the Gay Pri/Equal Marriage movement.
A straight ally or heterosexual ally is a heterosexual and/or cisgenr person who supports equal civil rights, genr equaly, LGBT social movements, and challeng homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. 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. 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.
GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
"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. " The origal Pri Flag was flown for the first time at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para celebratn on June 25, 1978.
The origal Pri Flag was created 1978 after activist Harvey Milk asked artist Gilbert Baker to sign a symbol of gay pri. The Lake Bluff Village Board is nsirg raisg a gay pri flag on a village flagpole, but tste are lookg for addnal rmatn before takg formal members discsed the ia at a July 10 Commtee of the Whole meetg, rumg a nversatn that began at a June ssn after two rints ntacted village officials supportg the ia of raisg a pri flag, acrdg to village documents. The anizatn behd a proment memorial to the LGBTQI+ muny said their Internatnal Homomonument on the Koekamp The Hague was vered wh drawgs and anti-gay slogans.
GAY RIGHTS
The foundatn said statements pated at the monument se clu “fuck gays” and “weg met pri, ” which translat as “down wh pri.
The Internatnal Homomonument “serv as a memoratn for all lbian women, homosexual men, bisexuals, transgenrs, queers and tersex people, anywhere the world, persecuted or opprsed bee of their sexual orientatn or genr inty, the past and the prent, ” the IHDH said on the webse for the monument. The origal rabow pri flag was signed by Gilbert Baker 1978 at the requt of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California.