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HOW DID THE RABOW BEE A SYMBOL OF GAY PRI?
It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag.
WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials the U.S., to create a symbol of pri for the gay muny.
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.