Seri creator Rachael New spoke to Salon about how the show touch on the limatns of 19th-century gay men
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HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
The Senate passed a bill to protect gay marriage as well as terracial marriage. “The dtry is and has been largely ma of gay men. Pri month has s roots the memoratn of the Stonewall rts June of 1969 after police raid a New York Cy gay bar, The Stonewall Inn.
Eight years later, a rabow flag created by artist Gilbert Baker ma s but at the San Francis event to symbolize Gay Pri and beme an inic symbol. Wrer and w Osr Wil popularized wearg a green rnatn as a gay symbol 1892. As a rult, many gay bars throughout history had nam such as “The Pansy Club.
Later the 1920s, drag queens like Jean Mal helped popularize gay-iendly bars major ci, a trend that historian Gee Chncey lled “the Pansy Craze. Whereas the late 19th century rtricted gay male activy to the seedy red-light district unr the elevated tra of the Bowery, wh an even ls visible lbian life largely rtricted to private salons for upper-class women, prohibn allowed the first emergence of a visible gay and lbian life. But the rise of Nazism and Hollywood homophobia, due to the Hays Commissn, drove the clubs back unrground.