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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: ; DAILY NEWSLETTER
WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

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: ; DAILY NEWSLETTER

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 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. The origal rabow pri flag was signed by Gilbert Baker 1978 at the requt of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California. This multi-lored flag morphed to a banner of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr movement, which is monly referred to today as of the lors had a specific meang:Hot Pk for sexRed for lifeOrange for healgYellow for sunGreen for sereny wh natureTurquoise for artIndigo for harmonyVlet for November 27, 1978, the openly gay San Francis Cy Supervisor Harvey Milk was assassated.

(Getty / The Atlantic)Sce s first flight at 1978’s Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis, the rabow flag has evolved multiple tim.

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She also warned of those she lled “normal homosexuals, ” who chewed fightg palism favor of assiatn to the profsnal historil realy of queer stggle is lost Pri’s whewashed rporate brandg, which is remarkably apolil on the issu that matter to the most margalized people the LGBTQ muny: affordable hog and health re, sex-work crimalizatn, and an end to policg and rceratn. Together, the Pri Flag's six rabow lors symbolize hope, and each also has s own meang:Red: LifeOrange: HealgYellow: SunlightGreen: NatureBlue: Peace or serenyPurple: SpirLGBTQ Pri flags go beyond the classic 's what each one meansLGBTQ glossary: Defns every good ally should knowThe history of the Gilbert Baker Pri Flag In the 1970s, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California, challenged activist Gilbert Baker to sign a symbol of hope for the gay muny. "Harvey Milk was a iend of me, an important gay lear San Francis the ’70s, and he rried a really important msage about how important was to be visible, " said Baker an terview wh the Mm of Morn Art 2015.

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