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• FUNNY VERS FOR GAY 40TH MAN QUOT & SAYGS
• RIPRD, THE OLST GAY LEATHER BAR TEXAS, CELEBRAT 40 YEARS THIS WEEKEND
• WELE TO THE ROCHTER GAY MEN'S CHOS
• NEW YORK CY GAY BARS
• ANNIVERSARY GIFTS FOR GAY COUPL

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It was the summer of 1978, and the Gay Communy Center San Francis swarmed wh dozens of young hippi fltg between irong boards, sewg mach and trash ns filled wh lorful had been tasked wh makg two enormo flags to fly above the cy’s Gay Freedom Day Para, and they wanted somethg bright. Unbeknownst to them, their lorful project, the rabow flag, would bee the ternatnal symbol for LGBTQ rights, seen practilly everywhere — om atop Cy Hall liberal Wt Hollywood, to untri like Uganda, where homosexualy is illegal, to the Target clothg aisle durg LGBTQ Pri, 40 years later, one of the women stmental the flag’s creatn says history has largely fotten some of the artists who ma happen. “It would be nice to get cred, ” said Lynn Segerblom, a tie-dye artist who ncted the dyeg procs for the giant flags and who was then known as Faerie Argyle sign and sewg of the first rabow flag often is solely creded to the self-scribed “gay Betsy Ross, ” Gilbert Baker — a well-known activist and drag queen who died last year — wh ltle or no mentn of the artists and volunteers who helped that summer.

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