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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.

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WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?

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

HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

Where did that rabow flag e om, and how did e to symbolize gay pri and rights? * how the rainbow became the symbol of gay pride *

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.

HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

The first versns of the rabow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para. 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.

HOW DID THE RABOW BEE A SYMBOL OF GAY PRI?

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.

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