The Gay Rabow Is a Mark of the Beast

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• WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE RABOW LORS? HERE'S A GUI TO PRI FLAG SYMBOLISM BY KTVU STAFF PUBLISHED JUNE 4, 2021 UPDATED 12:43PM PRI KTVU FOX 2 SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE FILE ART (PHOTO BY JT SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAG) EXPAND SAN FRANCISCO - THE RABOW FLAG IS KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD AS A SYMBOL OF LGBTQ PRI. BUT THERE ARE ALSO MULTIPLE VARIATNS REPRENTG DIFFERENT QUEER MUNI THAT YOU MAY NOT BE FAIAR WH.  THE TRADNAL RABOW FLAG HAS ALSO UNRGONE MULTIPLE EVOLUTNS THROUGH THE S TO BE MORE CLIVE.  HERE IS YOUR GUI TO SOME OF THE MANY DIFFERENT PRI FLAGS AND WHAT THEY MEAN. GILBERT BAKER PRI FLAG IN 1978, ARTIST AND GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST GILBERT BAKER SIGNED THIS RABOW FLAG AS A SYMBOL OF PRI FOR THE GAY MUNY. IT'S SCE BEE A WORLDWI SYMBOL OF LGBTQ PRI. EACH LOR CELEBRAT AN ASPECT OF QUEER PRI: HOT PK =  SEXRED = LIFEORANGE = HEALGYELLOW = SUNLIGHTGREEN = NATURETURQUOISE = MAGIC/ARTINDIGO = SERENYVLET = SPIR  1978-1999 PRI FLAG GILBERT BAKER REFERRED TO THIS VERSN OF HIS ORIGAL PRI FLAG AS THE "MERCIAL" ERATN, BEE WAS PRODUCED WHOUT THE HOT PK STRIPE DUE TO A SHORTAGE OF FABRIC THAT LOR AT THE TIME.  DEMAND FOR THE PRI FLAG ALSO SURGED AFTER THE 1978 ASSASSATN OF HARVEY MILK, NTRIBUTG TO THE SUPPLY SHORTAGE.   TRADNAL GAY PRI FLAG IN 1979, THE SIX-LORED FLAG BEME A MON VERSN HUNG AROUND SAN FRANCIS. HAVG AN ODD NUMBER OF LORS LED TO TURQUOISE BEG DROPPED. IT MAY BE THE MOST REGNIZABLE ERATN OF THE PRI FLAG.  PHILALPHIA PEOPLE OF COLOR INCLIVE FLAG IN 2017, THE CY OF PHILALPHIA ADD BLACK AND BROWN TO THE SIX-LOR PRI FLAG TO BE MORE CLIVE OF THE QUEER PEOPLE MUNI OF LOR WHO ARE OFTEN NOT FULLY CLUD THE LGBT MUNY.  PROGRS PRI FLAG  TAKG THE PHILALPHIA PRI FLAG ONE STEP FURTHER, THE FOLLOWG YEAR THE PROGRS PRI FLAG WAS SIGNED TO ADD A CHEVRON FEATURG BLACK, BROWN, BLUE, PK, AND WHE STRIP TO SYMBOLIZE THE CLN OF MARGALIZED MUNI OF LOR, TRANS PEOPLE, AND THOSE LIVG WH OR WHO HAVE DIED OM HIV/AIDS. THE CHEVRON ARROW SHAPE REPRENTS MOVG FORWARD AND MAKG PROGRS THE MUNY.  BISEXUAL PRI FLAG INSPIRED BY ANOTHER SYMBOL OF BISEXUALY (TWO OVERLAPPG PK AND BLUE TRIANGL), THIS FLAG REPRENTS THE TERSECTN OF TRADNALLY MALE AND FEMALE LORS.  PANSEXUAL FLAG THE PK REPRENTS WOMEN-INTIFYG PEOPLE, YELLOW IS FOR NON-BARY AND GENR-NONNFORMG PEOPLE, AND THE BLUE IS FOR MALE-INTIFYG PEOPLE. THE PANSEXUAL PRI FLAG SURFACED ON THE TER AROUND 2010, ACRDG TO , AS A WAY TO DISTGUISH THE MUNY OM BISEXUALY. IT BRGS VISIBILY TO PANSEXUAL PEOPLE WHO HAVE ROMANTIC ATTRACTNS WH PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT GENRS AND SEXUALI. ASEXUAL FLAG  THIS FLAG MIMICS OF THE LOGO FOR THE ASEXUAL VISIBILY AND EDUTN NETWORK. IT REPRENTS MANY INTI OF THE ASEXUAL MUNY, CLUDG ASEXUALS AND MI-SEXUALS (PEOPLE WHO DON'T EXPERIENCE SEXUAL ATTRACTN UNLS THEY HAVE AN EMOTNAL NNECTN FIRST). THE WHE STRIPE REPRENTS PARTNERS AND ALLI OF THE ASEXUAL MUNY AND PURPLE REPRENTS UNY OF THE ENTIRE ASEXUAL MUNY. TRANSGENR PRI FLAG SCE S BUT 2000, THE TRANS PRI FLAG HAS BEE THE MOST REGNIZABLE SYMBOL OF THE TRANSGENR MUNY. BLUE REPRENTS MALE-INTIFYG DIVIDUALS, PK REPRENTS FEMALE-INTIFYG DIVIDUALS, AND WHE REPRENTS PEOPLE WHO ARE TERSEX, TRANSNG, NON-BARY, OR HAVG AN UNFED GENR. LBIAN PRI FLAG THERE HAVE BEEN VAR ERATNS OF FLAGS REPRENTG DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE LBIAN MUNY. THE "PK" LBIAN PRI FLAG HAS SIX SHAS OF RED AND PK LORS WH A WHE BAR THE MIDDLE. SOMETIM THE FLAG IS DISPLAYED WH A RED KISS TO REPRENT "LIPSTICK LBIANS" BUT WAS NOT AS WILY ADOPTED. THERE ARE ALSO OTHER VARIATNS OF THE LBIAN FLAG, CLUDG ON FOR BUTCH LBIANS AND LABRYS LBIANS. POLYSEXUAL FLAG  UNLIKE PANSEXUALS, POLYSEXUAL PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO MULTIPLE GENRS BUT NOT ALL GENRS. THE LORS AND SIGN OF THE FLAG ARE BASED OFF THE BISEXUAL AND PANSEXUAL FLAGS. IT BORROWS THE BLUE AND PK, AND REPLAC THE PURPLE AND YELLOW STRIP WH A GREEN ONE TO REPRENT ATTRACTN TO PEOPLE WHO INTIFY OUTSI THE TRADNAL MALE-FEMALE BARY. INTERSEX PRI FLAG  THE TERSEX PRI FLAG WAS SIGNED BY MAN CARPENTER OF INTERSEX HUMAN RIGHTS ATRALIA 2013.  IT THE LORS YELLOW AND PURPLE STEAD OF THE GENRED LORS OF PK AND BLUE. THE UNBROKEN CIRCLE REPRENTS THE WHOLENS OF TERSEX PEOPLE, WHO ARE BORN WH REPRODUCTIVE OR SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS OUTSI OF THE SOCIALLY NSTCTED FNS OF FEMALE OR MALE. GENRFLUID PRI FLAG THIS FLAG GIV VISIBILY TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE A GENR EXPRSN OR INTY THAT IS NOT NSTANT OR FIXED. PK REPRENTS FEMY; WHE REPRENTS LACK OF GENR; PURPLE REPRENTS A BATN OF BOTH MASCULY AND FEMY; BLACK REPRENTS ALL GENRS, CLUDG GENRS THAT DO NOT ALIGN WH FEMY OR MASCULY; BLUE REPRENTS MASCULY.  GENRQUEER PRI FLAG  DIGNED 2011 BY MARILYN ROXIE, THE FLAG WAS MA TO CREATE VISIBILY FOR THE GENRQUEER AND NON-BARY MUNI. ACRDG TO ROXIE, LAVENR REPRENTS A MIX OF GENRED LORS, PK AND BLUE. WHE IS FOR AGENR DIVIDUALS. AND DARK CHARTRSE IS "THE VERSE OF LAVENR; MEANT TO REPRENT THOSE WHOSE INTI WHICH ARE FED OUTSI OF AND WHOUT REFERENCE TO THE BARY." NON-BARY PRI FLAG  THIS FLAG WAS CREATED 2014 BY 17-YEAR-OLD KYE ROWAN TO FLY ALONGSI THE GENRQUEER FLAG AS A SYMBOL OF NON-BARY PEOPLE WHO FELT THEY DO NOT F TO THE TRADNAL MALE-FEMALE GENR BARY. THE YELLOW SYMBOLIZ GENR OUTSI A BARY. WHE REPRENTS THOSE WH MANY OR ALL GENRS. PURPLE REPRENTS PEOPLE WHO ARE BOTH BARY MALE AND FEMALE OR FLUID BETWEEN THEM. AND BLACK IS FOR THE AGENR MUNY. AGENR PRI FLAG THE AGENR PRI FLAG CREATED 2014 HAS SEVEN HORIZONTAL STRIP. THE BLACK AND WHE STRIP REPRENT AN ABSENCE OF GENR, THE GRAY REPRENTS SEMI-GENRLSNS, AND THE CENTRAL GREEN STRIPE REPRENTS NON-BARY DIVIDUALS. SOURCE: ;  BREAKING NEWS
• WHAT DO LGBTQ+ STAND FOR AND WHAT DO THE RABOW GAY PRI FLAG MEAN?
• WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
• THE GAY RABOW IS A MARK OF THE BEAST

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE RABOW LORS? HERE'S A GUI TO PRI FLAG SYMBOLISM BY KTVU STAFF PUBLISHED JUNE 4, 2021 UPDATED 12:43PM PRI KTVU FOX 2 SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE FILE ART (PHOTO BY JT SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAG) EXPAND SAN FRANCISCO - THE RABOW FLAG IS KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD AS A SYMBOL OF LGBTQ PRI. BUT THERE ARE ALSO MULTIPLE VARIATNS REPRENTG DIFFERENT QUEER MUNI THAT YOU MAY NOT BE FAIAR WH.  THE TRADNAL RABOW FLAG HAS ALSO UNRGONE MULTIPLE EVOLUTNS THROUGH THE S TO BE MORE CLIVE.  HERE IS YOUR GUI TO SOME OF THE MANY DIFFERENT PRI FLAGS AND WHAT THEY MEAN. GILBERT BAKER PRI FLAG IN 1978, ARTIST AND GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST GILBERT BAKER SIGNED THIS RABOW FLAG AS A SYMBOL OF PRI FOR THE GAY MUNY. IT'S SCE BEE A WORLDWI SYMBOL OF LGBTQ PRI. EACH LOR CELEBRAT AN ASPECT OF QUEER PRI: HOT PK =  SEXRED = LIFEORANGE = HEALGYELLOW = SUNLIGHTGREEN = NATURETURQUOISE = MAGIC/ARTINDIGO = SERENYVLET = SPIR  1978-1999 PRI FLAG GILBERT BAKER REFERRED TO THIS VERSN OF HIS ORIGAL PRI FLAG AS THE "MERCIAL" ERATN, BEE WAS PRODUCED WHOUT THE HOT PK STRIPE DUE TO A SHORTAGE OF FABRIC THAT LOR AT THE TIME.  DEMAND FOR THE PRI FLAG ALSO SURGED AFTER THE 1978 ASSASSATN OF HARVEY MILK, NTRIBUTG TO THE SUPPLY SHORTAGE.   TRADNAL GAY PRI FLAG IN 1979, THE SIX-LORED FLAG BEME A MON VERSN HUNG AROUND SAN FRANCIS. HAVG AN ODD NUMBER OF LORS LED TO TURQUOISE BEG DROPPED. IT MAY BE THE MOST REGNIZABLE ERATN OF THE PRI FLAG.  PHILALPHIA PEOPLE OF COLOR INCLIVE FLAG IN 2017, THE CY OF PHILALPHIA ADD BLACK AND BROWN TO THE SIX-LOR PRI FLAG TO BE MORE CLIVE OF THE QUEER PEOPLE MUNI OF LOR WHO ARE OFTEN NOT FULLY CLUD THE LGBT MUNY.  PROGRS PRI FLAG  TAKG THE PHILALPHIA PRI FLAG ONE STEP FURTHER, THE FOLLOWG YEAR THE PROGRS PRI FLAG WAS SIGNED TO ADD A CHEVRON FEATURG BLACK, BROWN, BLUE, PK, AND WHE STRIP TO SYMBOLIZE THE CLN OF MARGALIZED MUNI OF LOR, TRANS PEOPLE, AND THOSE LIVG WH OR WHO HAVE DIED OM HIV/AIDS. THE CHEVRON ARROW SHAPE REPRENTS MOVG FORWARD AND MAKG PROGRS THE MUNY.  BISEXUAL PRI FLAG INSPIRED BY ANOTHER SYMBOL OF BISEXUALY (TWO OVERLAPPG PK AND BLUE TRIANGL), THIS FLAG REPRENTS THE TERSECTN OF TRADNALLY MALE AND FEMALE LORS.  PANSEXUAL FLAG THE PK REPRENTS WOMEN-INTIFYG PEOPLE, YELLOW IS FOR NON-BARY AND GENR-NONNFORMG PEOPLE, AND THE BLUE IS FOR MALE-INTIFYG PEOPLE. THE PANSEXUAL PRI FLAG SURFACED ON THE TER AROUND 2010, ACRDG TO , AS A WAY TO DISTGUISH THE MUNY OM BISEXUALY. IT BRGS VISIBILY TO PANSEXUAL PEOPLE WHO HAVE ROMANTIC ATTRACTNS WH PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT GENRS AND SEXUALI. ASEXUAL FLAG  THIS FLAG MIMICS OF THE LOGO FOR THE ASEXUAL VISIBILY AND EDUTN NETWORK. IT REPRENTS MANY INTI OF THE ASEXUAL MUNY, CLUDG ASEXUALS AND MI-SEXUALS (PEOPLE WHO DON'T EXPERIENCE SEXUAL ATTRACTN UNLS THEY HAVE AN EMOTNAL NNECTN FIRST). THE WHE STRIPE REPRENTS PARTNERS AND ALLI OF THE ASEXUAL MUNY AND PURPLE REPRENTS UNY OF THE ENTIRE ASEXUAL MUNY. TRANSGENR PRI FLAG SCE S BUT 2000, THE TRANS PRI FLAG HAS BEE THE MOST REGNIZABLE SYMBOL OF THE TRANSGENR MUNY. BLUE REPRENTS MALE-INTIFYG DIVIDUALS, PK REPRENTS FEMALE-INTIFYG DIVIDUALS, AND WHE REPRENTS PEOPLE WHO ARE TERSEX, TRANSNG, NON-BARY, OR HAVG AN UNFED GENR. LBIAN PRI FLAG THERE HAVE BEEN VAR ERATNS OF FLAGS REPRENTG DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE LBIAN MUNY. THE "PK" LBIAN PRI FLAG HAS SIX SHAS OF RED AND PK LORS WH A WHE BAR THE MIDDLE. SOMETIM THE FLAG IS DISPLAYED WH A RED KISS TO REPRENT "LIPSTICK LBIANS" BUT WAS NOT AS WILY ADOPTED. THERE ARE ALSO OTHER VARIATNS OF THE LBIAN FLAG, CLUDG ON FOR BUTCH LBIANS AND LABRYS LBIANS. POLYSEXUAL FLAG  UNLIKE PANSEXUALS, POLYSEXUAL PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO MULTIPLE GENRS BUT NOT ALL GENRS. THE LORS AND SIGN OF THE FLAG ARE BASED OFF THE BISEXUAL AND PANSEXUAL FLAGS. IT BORROWS THE BLUE AND PK, AND REPLAC THE PURPLE AND YELLOW STRIP WH A GREEN ONE TO REPRENT ATTRACTN TO PEOPLE WHO INTIFY OUTSI THE TRADNAL MALE-FEMALE BARY. INTERSEX PRI FLAG  THE TERSEX PRI FLAG WAS SIGNED BY MAN CARPENTER OF INTERSEX HUMAN RIGHTS ATRALIA 2013.  IT THE LORS YELLOW AND PURPLE STEAD OF THE GENRED LORS OF PK AND BLUE. THE UNBROKEN CIRCLE REPRENTS THE WHOLENS OF TERSEX PEOPLE, WHO ARE BORN WH REPRODUCTIVE OR SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS OUTSI OF THE SOCIALLY NSTCTED FNS OF FEMALE OR MALE. GENRFLUID PRI FLAG THIS FLAG GIV VISIBILY TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE A GENR EXPRSN OR INTY THAT IS NOT NSTANT OR FIXED. PK REPRENTS FEMY; WHE REPRENTS LACK OF GENR; PURPLE REPRENTS A BATN OF BOTH MASCULY AND FEMY; BLACK REPRENTS ALL GENRS, CLUDG GENRS THAT DO NOT ALIGN WH FEMY OR MASCULY; BLUE REPRENTS MASCULY.  GENRQUEER PRI FLAG  DIGNED 2011 BY MARILYN ROXIE, THE FLAG WAS MA TO CREATE VISIBILY FOR THE GENRQUEER AND NON-BARY MUNI. ACRDG TO ROXIE, LAVENR REPRENTS A MIX OF GENRED LORS, PK AND BLUE. WHE IS FOR AGENR DIVIDUALS. AND DARK CHARTRSE IS "THE VERSE OF LAVENR; MEANT TO REPRENT THOSE WHOSE INTI WHICH ARE FED OUTSI OF AND WHOUT REFERENCE TO THE BARY." NON-BARY PRI FLAG  THIS FLAG WAS CREATED 2014 BY 17-YEAR-OLD KYE ROWAN TO FLY ALONGSI THE GENRQUEER FLAG AS A SYMBOL OF NON-BARY PEOPLE WHO FELT THEY DO NOT F TO THE TRADNAL MALE-FEMALE GENR BARY. THE YELLOW SYMBOLIZ GENR OUTSI A BARY. WHE REPRENTS THOSE WH MANY OR ALL GENRS. PURPLE REPRENTS PEOPLE WHO ARE BOTH BARY MALE AND FEMALE OR FLUID BETWEEN THEM. AND BLACK IS FOR THE AGENR MUNY. AGENR PRI FLAG THE AGENR PRI FLAG CREATED 2014 HAS SEVEN HORIZONTAL STRIP. THE BLACK AND WHE STRIP REPRENT AN ABSENCE OF GENR, THE GRAY REPRENTS SEMI-GENRLSNS, AND THE CENTRAL GREEN STRIPE REPRENTS NON-BARY DIVIDUALS. SOURCE: ;  BREAKING NEWS

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. It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag.

WHAT DO LGBTQ+ STAND FOR AND WHAT DO THE RABOW GAY PRI FLAG MEAN?

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. 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. Once, was jt a sgle pri flag broadly reprentg the muny, created 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay artist and activist.

"The Progrs Pri flag, an evolutn of the origal Pri flag, celebrat the betiful, vibrant diversy of the LGBTQ+ muny, and that tersectnaly mt always be ont and center the fight toward equaly, " Aryn Fields, a Human Rights Campaign spokperson, told Mashable by 's the brief history of the classic pri flag, but there are well over a dozen addnal flags reprentg other groups of LGBTQ+ people and muni, cludg:The Transgenr Flag, wh light blue, light pk, and whe strip, buted Nonbary Pri Flag, wh yellow, whe, purple, and black strip, was created 's most monly ed Intersex Flag, wh a purple circle over a yellow background, was signed Asexual Flag, wh black, gray, whe, and purple strip, was created Bisexual Flag, wh a pk top sectn and blue bottom sectn meetg a purple stripe the middle, was created Pansexual Flag, wh pk, blue, and yellow strip, was created Lbian Flag, wh strip shas of red, pk, and orange s most wily accepted sign, was created 2018 and more broadly embraced than Abrosexual Flag, wh strip shas of green, whe, and pk, is believed to have been created around 2015, as a symbol for those whose sexualy is morn Gay Men's Pri Flag, wh strip shas of green, blue, and purple, pl whe, was signed Genrqueer Flag, wh lavenr, whe, and green strip, was created 2011. She has an openg song, she thks about a world that is over the rabow where she n fly and be ee, " Stephen Fry, a gay English actor, said his speech at the 2019 Brish LGBT Awards. "And that's why gay people love that song: bee gay people everywhere dreamt of beg over the rabow.

WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?

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.

THE GAY RABOW IS A MARK OF THE BEAST

"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. 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].

Judy Garland, the star of "The Wizard of Oz, " has a large followg as a gay symbol, and is famo for sgg "Somewhere Over the Rabow" the 's rabow pattern has sce moved on om jt flags. And when the Supreme Court tablished the legaly of gay marriage natnwi 2015's Obergefell v.