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50 years on om the first Gay Pri march 1972 revellers take to London’s streets for biggt ever para and first sce the panmic stck * gay pride flags london *
But Vecchiette’s addn to the Pri Flag is only the latt chapter a fascatg journey to create a flag to reprent all the diversy wh the LGBTQI+ first flag Although the rabow base sign of the Pri flag seems ubiquo 2022, wasn’t until the 1970s that was then, one of the only symbols to reprent the queer muny had been the pk triangle, created by the Nazis to intify gay men.
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Although has been reclaimed and is ed proudly by some members of the queer muny, others wanted a new symbol, one ee of the pk triangle’s dark 1977, San Francis artist Gilbert Baker was nvced by iends, filmmaker Artie Brsan and Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California, to create an image of pri for the gay muny. The eight origal lours each had their own pk = SexRed = LifeOrange = HealgYellow = SunlightGreen = NatureTurquoise = Magic/ArtIndigo = SerenyVlet = SpirTwo new variatns emergeBaker’s flag grew populary, first the San Francis gay scene. How did an exhibn of gay pri flags end up one of London’s most venerable public spac?
The very first Pri flag dat to 1977, when gay rights lear Harvey Milk asked LGBTQ+ artist and activist Gilbert Baker to create a symbol around which the burgeong gay rights movement uld rally. Michael Jensen is an thor, edor, and one half of Brent and Michael Are Gog Plac, a uple of travelg gay digal nomads.