Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, & Transgenr Symbols

Contents:

• GAY PRI
• CHASG THE RABOW: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER YOUTH AND PRI SEMTICS
• SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE

GAY PRI

Tradnally, the symbol is drawn pla black, but more recent versns pict the double mars wh the rabow lors filled to symbolize the gays’ aterny or solidary wh other subsectors of the muny. To prott the creasg number of news articl agast the LGBTQ people San Francis 1969, 60 members of the Gay Liberatn Front and Society of Human Rights staged a rally on Halloween night.

Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement). In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year).

Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC5378595NIHMSID: NIHMS843014AbstractWhile the pri rabow has been part of polil and social terventn for s, few have rearched how lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer young people perceive and e the symbol. As part of a larger study on supportive lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer youth environments, we nducted 66 go-along terviews wh lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer youth people om Massachetts, Mnota and Brish Columbia.

CHASG THE RABOW: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER YOUTH AND PRI SEMTICS

Keywords: Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, LGBT, youth, wellbeg, semtics, rabow, pri flagIntroductnLbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer youth face greater risk of physil and mental health hazards than their heterosexual peers, cludg substance abe, sexual risk-takg, suicidaly and prsn (D’Augelli 2003; Eisenberg and Rnick 2006; Friedman et al. Factors fluencg the negative health out clu discrimatn, harassment and physil harm, lack of fay and social support and ternalised homophobia, which culmate experienc of mory strs, or a unique set of strsors experienced by those on society’s margs (Chard et al.

Even more signifint are the protective effects of support om fay, iends, teachers and muny members, and pecially the support of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer peers (Doty et al. 2015) important nuance to mory strs arguments, a study of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer youth’s higher rat of self-stctive behavrs, McDermott, Roen and Surfield (2008) argue that is the general ntext of environmental homophobia that is distrsg to youth, not the sexual mory inti themselv. In attempts to addrs environmental homophobia and genr-based bullyg, public policy rearchers have enuraged school teachers, unsellors, health staff and admistrators to vt ‘safe space’ iativ by g stickers pictg the inic symbols of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer-associated rabow ‘pri flag’ to proclaim certa areas as safe (Payne and Smh 2013; Ratts et al.

2013; Vacro, Augt, and Kennedy 2011) the out of bullyg and other strsors lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer youth experience (Rivers 2000), symbols of pri may be particularly important.

SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE

Policy makers hope the visibily of the symbol n help, but rearchers utn that the mere display of such rabows or ‘safe space’ stickers as part of many of the iativ seldom requir trag that aids teachers their practil support of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer youth (Payne and Smh 2013). Trag teachers and other muny members how to support sexual mory youth is cril; however, this study shows there may be more advantag om the display of pri symbols than ially rabow as a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer symbolIn June 2015, the rabow flag appeared on ernment buildgs and landmarks across the USA celebratn of the US Supreme Court cisn legalisg same sex marriage.

Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muni, for example, have a long tradn of g nocuo objects such as the placement of ear piercgs, the lour and placement of handkerchiefs and hair styl to signal inty and muny (Berlant and Freeman 1992; Bryan-Wilson and Fischer 2015) s 1978 creatn by the artist Gilbert Baker, the symbol of the rabow has been creasgly ed to reprent lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer pri and solidary (Dreyf 2015).