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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.

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

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.

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

In Nazi ncentratn mps, men imprisoned bee of their homosexualy were marked out by a pk triangle affixed to their clothg. 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. The gay muny, he believed, served a fabulo emblem entirely of s own fashng.

GAY BRATISLAVA

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. On 12 June, was waved by marchers the first major gay pri rally ever held Ukrae.

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

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.

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

Created 1999 by gay graphic signer Sean Campbell, the flag has not gaed much tractn the lbian muny.