Goluboi is the Rsian word for light blue (such as a daylight sky blue) as opposed to "sii" which is the Rsian word for dark blue (like the blue of the Amerin flag). This is siar to how English differentiat pk and red and do not say red and light red. They are nsired two pletely different lors Rsian. Goluboi. also seen spelt goluboy, is Rsian slang for gay or homosexual. One theory of the orig of this slang is that boys Rsia wear blue and girls wear pk. Homosexuals are th referred to as "blue" sce they like those of the same lor. Lbians are reffered to as rozovyi, which is the Rsian word for pk. Another suggts that first was rerd the 1950's but began beg ed the 1940's prison mps. Dignated homosexuals wore a blue ribbon - "golubaya lenta." Another theory is that referenced "blue blood" as the nobily saw homosexuals as odd. Yet another is that om homosexuals wearg blue unrwear or a story of a girl named Mal'va who had blue hair Alexei Tolstoy's story "Zolotoi kliuchik."" name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn
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WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
A prentatn of the major symbols associated wh the gay, lbian, bisexual, and trangenr movements (and some general symbols thrown for good measure) and their histori. * blue ribbon gay means *
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.
The abbreviatn LGBT stands for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr. Introduced durg the 1990’s is a term which was created as a non-discrimatory way to scribe those that intify unr the sexual orientatns. * blue ribbon gay means *
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].