Contents:
- WAS RABOW BRE AND HER GENR NON CONFORMG FRIENDS THE GAYT CARTOON EVER?
- GAY GEEK GAB
- HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
- THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
WAS RABOW BRE AND HER GENR NON CONFORMG FRIENDS THE GAYT CARTOON EVER?
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GAY GEEK GAB
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HOW THE RABOW BEME THE 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. 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.
THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
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. 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.