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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’
- WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’
* gay pride flag exclusive *
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.
Origal pri flag — June 1978The first rabow pri flag was signed Gilbert Barker and unveiled durg the San Francis Gay Freedom Day on June 25, 1978. Philly Mag reported that a source volved wh the event said, “The black and brown strip are an clnary way to highlight Black and brown LGBTQIA members wh our muny.”“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,” the statement ntued.
Acrdg to TriPri, the flag is meant to reprent the QPOC muny, pecially as relat to the ti that have bound the Black and queer muni sce the ceptn of the gay liberatn movement. Today, Two-Spired people are dividuals that intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, other genred dividuals, as well as third or fourth genred dividuals who live and intify between the worlds and genrs. Bear pri flagThe bear pri flag celebrat a subculture of the LGBTQ muny that refers to gay or bisexual men who have facial and/or body hair and embrace fortably wh masculy and their bodi, acrdg to Montclair State Universy.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
(Getty / The Atlantic)Sce s first flight at 1978’s Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis, the rabow flag has evolved multiple tim. “Part of me, ” Monts said, “hop that is a step towards a more liberatory queerns that rejects homonormativy and all the nonsense that wh . She also warned of those she lled “normal homosexuals, ” who chewed fightg palism favor of assiatn to the profsnal historil realy of queer stggle is lost Pri’s whewashed rporate brandg, which is remarkably apolil on the issu that matter to the most margalized people the LGBTQ muny: affordable hog and health re, sex-work crimalizatn, and an end to policg and rceratn.
Prr to World War II, there wasn’t a universal sign or object for gay, trans, and/or queer people to e to build a muny around Ameri, let alone around the world. The pk triangle was ed Nazi Germany ncentratn mps durg the Holot to signify that a male prisoner was gay or queer.
After the end of the Nazi reign, the pk triangle no longer served that purpose, although many gay men were not eed after the Alli took ntrol of Germany 1945.