Lez talk: Do rabows make you gay?

Contents:

• WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
• WHAT DO LGBTQ+ STAND FOR AND WHAT DO THE RABOW GAY PRI FLAG MEAN?
• RABOW FLAG (GAY PRI, LBGT, LBGTQ, LBGTQ+) COLORS
• US LANDMARKS LIGHT UP RABOWS OVER GAY MARRIAGE LG – PICTUR
• THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG
• LEZ TALK: DO RABOWS MAKE YOU GAY?

WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?

The origal pri flag was created the 1970s by gay activist Gilbert Baker, iend of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California. The LGBT pri flag was vented 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay rights activist, army veteran, artist, and self-styled "gay Betsy Ross. ) He ma the flag for the Gay Freedom Pri Para that year San Francis, at the requt of Harvey Milk, a gay cy polician who was assassated later that symbol took hold immediately.

"Closeted gay people have also historilly ed bright lors to signal their homosexualy to each other, as Forrt Wickman wrote Slate. Durg the Holot, Nazis forced gay men to wear pk triangl as a symbol of sexual rabow flag was a way of takg the var lors and turng them to a herent symbol, reclaimed by the LGBT muny. As Baker told MOMA:"It was necsary to have the Rabow Flag bee up until that we had the pk triangle om the Nazis — was the symbol that they would e [to note gay people].

Judy Garland, the star of "The Wizard of Oz, " has a large followg as a gay symbol, and is famo for sgg "Somewhere Over the Rabow" the movie. "The Progrs Pri flag, an evolutn of the origal Pri flag, celebrat the betiful, vibrant diversy of the LGBTQ+ muny, and that tersectnaly mt always be ont and center the fight toward equaly, " Aryn Fields, a Human Rights Campaign spokperson, told Mashable by 's the brief history of the classic pri flag, but there are well over a dozen addnal flags reprentg other groups of LGBTQ+ people and muni, cludg:The Transgenr Flag, wh light blue, light pk, and whe strip, buted Nonbary Pri Flag, wh yellow, whe, purple, and black strip, was created 's most monly ed Intersex Flag, wh a purple circle over a yellow background, was signed Asexual Flag, wh black, gray, whe, and purple strip, was created Bisexual Flag, wh a pk top sectn and blue bottom sectn meetg a purple stripe the middle, was created Pansexual Flag, wh pk, blue, and yellow strip, was created Lbian Flag, wh strip shas of red, pk, and orange s most wily accepted sign, was created 2018 and more broadly embraced than Abrosexual Flag, wh strip shas of green, whe, and pk, is believed to have been created around 2015, as a symbol for those whose sexualy is morn Gay Men's Pri Flag, wh strip shas of green, blue, and purple, pl whe, was signed Genrqueer Flag, wh lavenr, whe, and green strip, was created 2011. She has an openg song, she thks about a world that is over the rabow where she n fly and be ee, " Stephen Fry, a gay English actor, said his speech at the 2019 Brish LGBT Awards.

WHAT DO LGBTQ+ STAND FOR AND WHAT DO THE RABOW GAY PRI FLAG MEAN?

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. Gilbert Baker, the man creded wh pneerg the celebratory rabow flag flyg over the gay movement, recently ld his craft, notg that ’s somethg betiful. God signed the rabow to symbolize somethg far greater and far more glor than homosexualy, and if those the homosexual muny tly unrstood and embraced the symbol they are wavg their hands, they would experience te eedom and peace.

The fact that he has reaed om sendg another flood to stroy the world do not mean that he accepts homosexual practic, or any other kd of s. The addn of black and brown strip to the tradnal pri flag symbolized people of lor, who historilly were not always clud aspects of the mastream gay rights movement. The updated flag is meant to be clive of a much wi range of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg men.

RABOW FLAG (GAY PRI, LBGT, LBGTQ, LBGTQ+) COLORS

The term is scribed as a rponse to gay pri adopted by var groups (later uned unr the moniker LGBT) the early 1970s, or to the acmodatns provid to gay pri iativ. The Straight Ally flag is g the black-whe "lors" of the heterosexual flag as a field, adds a large rabow lored "A" (for "Ally") to dite straight support for the Gay Pri/Equal Marriage movement. A straight ally or heterosexual ally is a heterosexual and/or cisgenr person who supports equal civil rights, genr equaly, LGBT social movements, and challeng homophobia, biphobia and transphobia.

I had no ia they were associated wh LGBTQ+ muni until the day I was wearg my favore rabow baby tee (RIP) and some girl waltzed up to me and announced, "Rabows are gay! Acrdg to the History Channel, Harvey Milk, one of the untry’s first openly gay elected officials, missned artist Gilbert Baker to create the first rabow flag for San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para.

Wh the help of his roommate, gay rights activist Cleve Jon, and others, Baker also signed and created an Amerin flag wh rabow strip stead of the ual red, whe and blue, and both flew over the 1978 Pri para, Refery29 of the hu of the rabow stand for a different aspect of LGBTQ+ Pri. When she was younger, she realized when she was about six that the rabow flag was associated wh queerns, bee a neighbor who intified as gay had a flag outsi of his she has embraced her sexualy, her lk to the flag has grown. “I fely avoid wearg anythg that signaled too strongly that I was gay, like rabow-prted t-shirts wh slogans, ribbons, even the button ps, ” Tyler says.

US LANDMARKS LIGHT UP RABOWS OVER GAY MARRIAGE LG – PICTUR

“Femme visibily is a real thg the datg world, so was really important for me to add an overtly gay rabow tail to my outfs when I was drsg femme, ” Tyler says.

Together, the Pri Flag's six rabow lors symbolize hope, and each also has s own meang:Red: LifeOrange: HealgYellow: SunlightGreen: NatureBlue: Peace or serenyPurple: SpirLGBTQ Pri flags go beyond the classic 's what each one meansLGBTQ glossary: Defns every good ally should knowThe history of the Gilbert Baker Pri Flag In the 1970s, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official  California, challenged activist Gilbert Baker to sign a symbol of hope for the gay muny. "Harvey Milk was a iend of me, an important gay lear San Francis the ’70s, and he rried a really important msage about how important was to be visible, " said Baker an terview wh the Mm of Morn Art 2015. He then met gay rights lear Harvey Milk 1974, who challenged him to e up wh a symbol for the gay muny three years to their iendship.

The rts, which saw members of the gay muny stand agast a police raid Manhattan, New York, are nsired to be the most important event the morn fight for LGBT rights the US.

THE DISTURBG SECRET MSAGE OF THE ‘GAY PRI’ FLAG

Throughout the Holot, the Nazis forced those whom they labeled as gay to wear verted pk triangle badg, jt as they forced Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David.

"Gay people wear the pk triangle today as a remr of the past and a pledge that history will not repeat self, " read one 1977 letter to the edor Time. There were long-haired, lhe girls belly-dance get-ups, pk-haired punks safety-pned together, hippie suburban, movie stars so betiful they left you dumbstck, mcle gayboys wh perfect mtach, butch dyk blue jeans, and fairi of all genrs thrift-store drs … We were all a swirl of lor and light. 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.

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.

LEZ TALK: DO RABOWS MAKE YOU GAY?

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. 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.