CA teacher enuraged stunts to pledge gay pri flag: vio

Contents:

• WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
• GAY PRI : MAIS D’Où VIENT LE DRAPE ARC-EN-CIEL ?
• TEACHER REMOVED US FLAG OM CLASS, ENURAGED STUNTS TO PLEDGE TO GAY PRI BANNER
• GAY BRATISLAVA
• LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’
• GAY PRI REAR VIEW MIRROR BANNER FLAG - RABOW CAR PRI FLAG

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

SSudnly, they are everywhere: stretched across balni, flappg om r antennas, and pned to at lapels the world over a movg display of solidary wh the muny that was btally terrorised on Sunday after a bigoted asslt at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida. Acrdg to the US gay activist Gilbert Baker, who is creded wh creatg the emblem the late 1970s, the ia behd the flag’s bold sign emerged 1976 – the year the Uned Stat celebrated the bicentenary of s pennce as a republic.

“Flags are about proclaimg power” – Gilbert BakerIt was agast this turbulent backdrop that San Francis Cy Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person ever to be elected to public office California, enuraged Baker 1977 to vise a unique symbol for the gay muny – an signia of pri pable of affirmg social pennce. Hypnotised by the talismanic tensy of the US flag and s abily to transmute self art and fashn – om pricey Pop Art patgs by Jasper Johns to gngy nim patch – Baker was drawn to the ceptive simplicy of a field of stacked strip as a symbol for many stched together as flag has appeared around the world memorials for those killed at the mass shootg Orlando (Cred: Getty Imag)In ntemplatg how, precisely, he should revent that pattern, Baker was aware that any sign he produced would pete popular imagatn wh a paful, if rilient, logo by which the gay muny had long been intified. In Nazi ncentratn mps, men imprisoned bee of their homosexualy were marked out by a pk triangle affixed to their clothg.

GAY PRI : MAIS D’Où VIENT LE DRAPE ARC-EN-CIEL ?

In the s followg the end of World War Two, gay muni around the world stripped the pk badge of s tend huiatn and fiantly re-flected wh pri.

TEACHER REMOVED US FLAG OM CLASS, ENURAGED STUNTS TO PLEDGE TO GAY PRI BANNER

The gay muny, he believed, served a fabulo emblem entirely of s own fashng. A equently ced hypothis lks the rabow to the rplennt ra of the actrs Judy Garland, long nsired a gay in (her role the film The Wizard of Oz has yield the lloquial slang-phrase “iend of Dorothy” as a term for a gay man), and to her famo performance of the song Over the wrers have noted that strong bright lours (such as the green rnatn Osr Wil wore to signify his sexual orientatn) have for centuri served as shorthand for homosexualy.

Displayed for the first time the Uned Natns Plaza downtown San Francis June 1978, this eight-striped versn was produced by a team of 30 volunteers manerg the washg mach of a public lndromat orr to rse the dye om the fabric and the wi attic space of a gay muny centre, where the dividual strips were ironed and sewn together. This is the versn that Harvey Milk would have known, if all too briefly, the few short months before he and the Mayor of San Francis, Gee Mosne, were shot to ath Cy Hall on 27 November by a ranged former lleague of Milk’ activist Harvey Milk was killed San Francis Cy Hall 1978 (Cred: Getty Imag)Demand for the rabow flag accelerated the aftermath of the murrs for display at gay pri paras and at events anised honour of the sla champn of LGBT rights.

In the 38 years sce Baker offered his ventn as a universal symbol of gay pri, proliferatn of s prismatic joy has been imprsively steady. In 1994, a e-long versn of the flag, which streamed through the streets of New York to mark the 25-year anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall rts Greenwich Village (a ccial moment the gay liberatn movement), set a rerd for the longt flag ever produced and helped plant the symbol permanently social ’s creatn is thread by perseverance and tged by paNow the flag is everywhere.

GAY BRATISLAVA

On 12 June, was waved by marchers the first major gay pri rally ever held Ukrae. In 1977, Harvey Milk challenged Gilbert Baker, a veteran who tght himself to sew, to e up wh a symbol of pri for the gay muny. Inspired by Judy Garland's "Over the Rabow, " the lorsflew at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para celebratn on June 25, 1978.

Tradnal Gay Pri Flag. The cy had prevly faced accatns of racial discrimatn s gay bars, which led 11 queer nightlife venu to take antiracism trag.

Created 1999 by gay graphic signer Sean Campbell, the flag has not gaed much tractn the lbian muny. This symbol is not exclively gay, but rather for the leather and BDSM muny. Though The New York Tim named 2018 "the age of the twk, " only the bears -- as gay men lovgly refer to the beefier, more hirsute guys -- have their own flag.

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

The flag equivalent of "I support LGBT people, but no homo, " this mak everyone feel clud at Pri march, even if they're celebratg other people's sexuali. The twk flag featur a pk top and yellow bottom and two Mars signs tertwe reprentg gay men.

It may e om the Brish slang "twank, " which referred to a client of a gay sex worker, acrdg to The New York Tim. Trans-Inclive Gay Men's Pri Flag.

The trans-clive gay men's pri flag is an updated versn of the gay men's pri flag.

GAY PRI REAR VIEW MIRROR BANNER FLAG - RABOW CAR PRI FLAG

It was signed to be clive of non-cisgenr gay men. It was created 1977 by Gilbert Baker, an artist, activist, and openly gay ary veteran. As the mand for the flag started to rise after the assassatn of gay San Francis Cy Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978.