A brief history of the Rabow Flag, wily known as the gay pri flag, stands as the most regnizable symbol of the LGBT muny.
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GAY RIGHTS
How did the rabow flag e to be and what do symbolize? And how did bee an ternatnal symbol of Gay Pri and a fight for equaly? * history of gay rainbow flag *
He beme iends wh Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person elected to office California, who urged his iend to create a symbol for gay Milk enuraged Baker to create somethg symbolic for LGBTQ+ rights. … 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].
* history of gay rainbow flag *
Irong the two flags—which each measured 30 feet by 60 feet—required 10 first flags went up at the Uned Natns Plaza durg the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25, 1978.
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.