Subway stranger mands NY gay and Jewish activist remove his pk kippah - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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'I WEAR A KIPPAH AND SEQUS': THE GAY, RELIG JEW WHO'S CHALLENGG NORMS

It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag. 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.

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.

SUBWAY STRANGER MANDS NY GAY AND JEWISH ACTIVIST REMOVE HIS PK KIPPAH

"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.

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Subway stranger mands NY gay and Jewish activist remove his pk kippah - Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

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