Flag signs have proliferated as the celebratn of gay rights has bee more clive | The Enomist explas
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The origal pri flag was created the 1970s by gay activist Gilbert Baker, iend of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California. Flag signs have proliferated as the celebratn of gay rights has bee more cliveLOOK UP AT a flagpole most big Amerin ci June, and you will probably see three banners: the stars and strip, the state or cy emblem and a rabow flag, which is flown to mark LGBTQ Pri month. The first Pri march were held 1970 Chigo, Los Angel and New York Cy on the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg, which began after police officers raid a gay bar Greenwich Village New York.
After beg oted om the U.S. ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. * gay flag new one *
Pri month got no official regnn for more than two s, until Bill Clton clared June to be “Gay and Lbian Pri Month” 1999.
The Internatnal Homomonument, a monument that honors people persecuted for their sexual orientatn, was vandalized wh anti-gay graffi. * gay flag new one *
As Amerins embraced gay rights, Democratic prints regnised more groups as servg of celebratn. In 2009 Barack Obama clared June to be “Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Pri Month”. The first gay-pri flag was created 1978 when Harvey Milk, a member of San Francis’s cy uncil, asked Gilbert Baker, an artist, to sign a banner for the gay muny.
It was flown for the first time that year’s Gay Freedom Day Para. (Milk was the first openly gay man elected to public office California; he was assassated by a former lleague the year that the flag ma s but. Acrdg to recent pollg om Gallup, ls than 1% of Amerin adults intify as transgenr, whereas nearly 7% intify as lbian, gay or bisexual.
Nearly three-quarters of Amerins support gay marriage, but they are spl on how acceptg they believe the untry to be to trans people. It was created 1977 by Gilbert Baker, an artist, activist, and openly gay ary veteran.