The morn unirn is everywhere. On children’s TV, on Gay Pri march and sellg bety products. Alice Fisher looks at why this magil creature has bee so popular
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GAY UNIRN
* why gay unicorn *
The rabow flag was created by Amerin artist Gilbert Baker 1978 as a joyo symbol of the diversy of the gay muny.
It beme proment durg the gay rights protts of the 1970s and 1980s. Rabows and unirns are so trsilly lked (the associatn is also a Victorian ventn) that ’s unsurprisg that the magic creature started to appear on T-shirts and banners at Gay Pri around the world, wh slogans such as “Genr is Imagary” or “Totally Straight” emblazoned unr sparklg rabow is tertg that an animal once so tradnally male is now not only a mpaigner of gay rights but often portrayed as female.
There aren’t many creatur that have been a reprentatn of Christ, a panacea, a gay rights mpaigner and a fashn accsory.