Name: 1978 Gay Freedom Day Dat: June 26, 1978 Primary Rource: Crawford Wayne Barton PapersPoster Lotn: Market/Hy 1978 Theme: ‘Come out...
Contents:
- 1978 GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA VIO
- GAY FREEDOM DAY - MAN WH SHIRTLS CHILD ON SHOULRS
- 1977 AND 1978 GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA VIO
- A HISTORY OF GAY FREEDOM DAY, DYKE MARCH, AND TRANS MARCH
- EVERY SF PRI THEME SCE THE FIRST-EVER GAY FREEDOM DAY 1970
- 1978 GAY FREEDOM DAY
1978 GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA VIO
He was missned to create a flag by another gay in, polician Harvey Milk, for San Francis’s annual pri cisn to enlist Baker proved serendipo, as the ia of a flag to reprent the gay and lbian muny had occurred to him two years earlier.
GAY FREEDOM DAY - MAN WH SHIRTLS CHILD ON SHOULRS
As Baker told the Mm of Morn Art durg a 2015 terview, he had been spired by the celebratns markg Ameri’s bicentennial 1976, notg that the nstant display of stars and strip ma him realize the cultural need for a siar rallyg sign for the gay muny.
1977 AND 1978 GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA VIO
And as a stgglg drag performer who was acctomed to creatg his own garments, he was well-equipped to sew the soon-to-be inic the time, the most monly ed image for the burgeong gay rights movement was the pk triangle, a symbol ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals.
A HISTORY OF GAY FREEDOM DAY, DYKE MARCH, AND TRANS MARCH
At the top was hot pk, which reprented sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow signifyg sunlight, green for nature, turquoise to reprent art, digo for harmony, and fally vlet at the bottom for the help of close to 30 volunteers workg the attic of the Gay Communy Center San Francis, Baker was able to nstct the first draft of the now world-renowned rabow flag. It was first showsed at San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25, the sign was unveiled, participants of the para proudly waved the new symbol solidary.
His legacy liv on the six-lored flag that fli proudly every Gay Pri month, regnizg the liv, and lov, of LGBT people worldwi.
EVERY SF PRI THEME SCE THE FIRST-EVER GAY FREEDOM DAY 1970
Part of the crowd at the Civic Center celebratn at the end of the 1977 San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para; photograph by Crawford Barton, Crawford Barton Papers (1993-11), GLBT Historil Society. On June 27, 1970, a ty band of hippi and “hair fairi” staged San Francis’s first Pri celebratn: a march on Polk Street, followed on the 28th by a “gay-” Goln Gate Park.
They were markg the first anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, when queers fought back agast a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy.
1978 GAY FREEDOM DAY
—Leo Lrence scribg the arrival of equtrian officers om the San Francis Police Department at the June 28 Gay-In that attracted some 200 people to Speedway Meadows Goln Gate Park.