The first gay pub I dared set foot now has a rabow plaque. Here’s why that matters | Gary Nunn | The Guardian

Contents:

• WELCOME TO RAINBOW PLAYGROUND N Y C - - - THE PREMIERE GAY AND TRANSSEXUAL HOTSPOT
• RABOW CELEBRATN BIG GAY OUT IS RETURNG AS PART OF AUCKLAND PRI FTIVAL THIS MONTH
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

WELCOME TO RAINBOW PLAYGROUND N Y C - - - THE PREMIERE GAY AND TRANSSEXUAL HOTSPOT

Event Details6pm - 11pm / $25MON, July 31stTranSexualX - Trans Men/ Women, CDs, Gay / Bi(FREE b4 8pm for Tgirls/ CDs wigs, makp, heels, fem undi)MON, July 31stTranSexualX - Trans Men/ Women, CDs, Gay / Bi. Every Sunday - 6pm - 1am, $22 - iendly Gay men of all rac ved to attend our Sunday afternoon Men's Unrwear Party.

Party open to adult Gay men of all rac/ typ age 21 and over. The NYC gaybros is a muny server meant for posive, iendly, social teractns between and is meant to be welg to all.

RABOW CELEBRATN BIG GAY OUT IS RETURNG AS PART OF AUCKLAND PRI FTIVAL THIS MONTH

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. 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.

THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

And when the Supreme Court tablished the legaly of gay marriage natnwi 2015's Obergefell v. The Whe Hoe illumated rabow lors after 2015's Supreme Court lg legalizg gay marriage. Annual one-day party Big Gay Out is makg s hotly anticipated return to this year's stacked Pri Ftival, after beg sadly ncelled last year amid Aotearoa's Omicron outbreak.

Takg over Coyle Park Pot Chevalier on Sunday, Febary 12, this year's Big Gay Out will feature a ltle somethg for everyone. Classic stapl cludg the giant market, Big Gay Out bar and chilled fay-iendly piic area will all return, alongsi Hoe of Au's Thirst Trap Ball and R18+ dance party zone Nympho World.

A lp of lol and ternatnal talent that clus Ka Mean, Theia, Parson Jam and even the Auckland Philharmonic Orchtra —as well as the annual crowng of Mr Gay NZ.