Streets around the world will be cked rabows this week as the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny celebrat LGBT Pri Month. Why...
Contents:
- WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
- HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
- WHY THE GAY PRI FLAG STILL MATTERS
- THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
The rabow is the most wily regnized LGBT symbol the world. But there's a history about how the LGBT rabow me to be associated wh gay pri on a global sle. * why is rainbow gay *
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.
HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
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 movie. 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.
WHY THE GAY PRI FLAG STILL MATTERS
He was missned to create a flag by another gay in, polician Harvey Milk, for San Francis’s annual pri cisn to enlist Baker proved serendipo, as the ia of a flag to reprent the gay and lbian muny had occurred to him two years earlier. As Baker told the Mm of Morn Art durg a 2015 terview, he had been spired by the celebratns markg Ameri’s bicentennial 1976, notg that the nstant display of stars and strip ma him realize the cultural need for a siar rallyg sign for the gay muny.
And as a stgglg drag performer who was acctomed to creatg his own garments, he was well-equipped to sew the soon-to-be inic the time, the most monly ed image for the burgeong gay rights movement was the pk triangle, a symbol ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals. At the top was hot pk, which reprented sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow signifyg sunlight, green for nature, turquoise to reprent art, digo for harmony, and fally vlet at the bottom for the help of close to 30 volunteers workg the attic of the Gay Communy Center San Francis, Baker was able to nstct the first draft of the now world-renowned rabow flag.
It was first showsed at San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25, the sign was unveiled, participants of the para proudly waved the new symbol solidary.
THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
His legacy liv on the six-lored flag that fli proudly every Gay Pri month, regnizg the liv, and lov, of LGBT people worldwi. Gilbert Baker, the man creded wh pneerg the celebratory rabow flag flyg over the gay movement, recently ld his craft, notg that ’s somethg betiful.
God signed the rabow to symbolize somethg far greater and far more glor than homosexualy, and if those the homosexual muny tly unrstood and embraced the symbol they are wavg their hands, they would experience te eedom and peace. The fact that he has reaed om sendg another flood to stroy the world do not mean that he accepts homosexual practic, or any other kd of s.
I had no ia they were associated wh LGBTQ+ muni until the day I was wearg my favore rabow baby tee (RIP) and some girl waltzed up to me and announced, "Rabows are gay! Acrdg to the History Channel, Harvey Milk, one of the untry’s first openly gay elected officials, missned artist Gilbert Baker to create the first rabow flag for San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para. Wh the help of his roommate, gay rights activist Cleve Jon, and others, Baker also signed and created an Amerin flag wh rabow strip stead of the ual red, whe and blue, and both flew over the 1978 Pri para, Refery29 of the hu of the rabow stand for a different aspect of LGBTQ+ Pri.