June is Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr pri month, and the rabow flag -- that inic symbol for gay pri -- is flyg om Athens to San Francis to Brazil. Enter artist Gilbert Baker, the man who first me up wh the flag's sign some 34 years ago.
Contents:
- MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG
- UNY AND RISTANCE: THE HISTORY BEHD THE GAY PRI FLAG
- WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
- HERE IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MORN GAY PRI FLAG
MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG
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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.
UNY AND RISTANCE: THE HISTORY BEHD THE GAY PRI FLAG
Wonrg about the Gay Men’s Pri Flag, ’s origs, and meangs? We have you vered wh this gui! * when was the gay flag invented *
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. And as a stgglg drag performer who was acctomed to creatg his own garments, he was well-equipped to sew the soon-to-be inic the time, the most monly ed image for the burgeong gay rights movement was the pk triangle, a symbol ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
At the top was hot pk, which reprented sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow signifyg sunlight, green for nature, turquoise to reprent art, digo for harmony, and fally vlet at the bottom for the help of close to 30 volunteers workg the attic of the Gay Communy Center San Francis, Baker was able to nstct the first draft of the now world-renowned rabow flag.
HERE IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MORN GAY PRI FLAG
It was first showsed at San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25, the sign was unveiled, participants of the para proudly waved the new symbol solidary.