Uny and Ristance: The History Behd the Gay Pri Flag

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

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. 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.

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. 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. His legacy liv on the six-lored flag that fli proudly every Gay Pri month, regnizg the liv, and lov, of LGBT people worldwi.

UNY AND RISTANCE: THE HISTORY BEHD THE GAY PRI FLAG

The rabow flag, which has bee a universal symbol of hope for LGBTQ people around the world, first flew San Francis’s Uned Natns Plaza for Gay Pri Day, on June 25, 1978. It had eight lors – two more than today’s versn – and was signed by Gilbert Baker, an openly gay artist and activist.

He had been missned to sign a symbol for the LGBTQ muny by his iend Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California.

The (cis, whe) gay man has always been at the centre of pri movements, but as people opened their mds to clu all LGBTQ+ inti the movement, the rabow flag creasgly solidified s posn as one that reprents the entire LGBTQ+ muny.Over time, mand grew for a flag that specifilly reprents gay men. This 5-loured (and sometim 7-loured) gay men pri flag was signed  2019 by Tumblr er @gayflagblog, but wasn’t whout ntroversy.Accatns that the creator of the flag is transphobic, and that the sign was stolen om the sunset lbian flag, were rampant. However, those claims have sce been bunked, and the flag beme creasgly accepted wh the muny.Meang behd the lours:Turquoise to green lours reprent muny, healg, and joyWhe reprents genr nonnformg, non-bary, and transgenr folksBlue to purple lours reprent pure love, fortu, and diversyWhile the gay men’s pri flag is another lser known pri flag.

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?

It featur different shas of green, blue and purple.This morn gay men’s pri flag is a revamp of an earlier gay men’s pri flag that featured a range of blue ton. That versn was problematic bee ed lors that were stereotypil of the genr bary.This updated flag is clive of a much wi ranger of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg men.

HERE IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MORN GAY PRI FLAG

This morn gay men’s pri flag is a revamp of an earlier gay men’s pri flag that featured a range of blue ton. That versn was problematic bee ed lors that were stereotypil of the genr bary.This updated flag is clive of a much wi range of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg men.The Reason a Flag is Need In The First PlaceThe rabow flag has always been the most popular flag for gay men to signify gay-ns and still is, even though this flag is gag some populary. Bee of the centrg of (cis, whe, rich) gay men general, due to our world’s generally patriarchal morn stcture, society’s image of the LGBT+ muny, the rabow flag om 1978 and s new 6 stripe form has often been mistakenly attributed to gay men particular, spe the rabow flag beg a liberately clive flag that clus all LGBT+ people.

So, for a while, gay men and lbians didn’t have popular, wily ed flags for our specific inti as gay men and lbians, though more flags started to be popularised for specific inti, such as bisexual, transgenr and asexual while prev lbian and gay male flags hadn’t achieved wispread e. I thk this is jt people who mistakenly believe that this flag has big problems (that im gog to bunk this post) and are makg fun of bee of that, rather than the appearance of the flag beg their ma problem wh .‘‘ was ma by a *sert bad adjective here* person’‘A lot of people seem to believe that the @gayflagblog flag was ‘’ma by a tscum/misogynist/[sert bad active here’]’.

I thk should be on a se-by-se basis and based on whether you are actually perpetuatg those ias or providg mouflage for dangero movements by g the symbol, but lets talk about whether this objectn is based facts.@gayflagblog is an anonymo acunt that do not talk about issu that are not to do wh the flag, and specifilly has ma the flag clive of all gay men, which mak the accatns factually basels.Gay Flag Blog: Stripe meangs were spired by my rearch of LGBT history, my and others experienc as gay men, and the meangs on Gilbert Baker’s origal flag (which I love arly and hold close to my heart). I am a gay trans man myself so this stripe is very important to me).this flag is clive of ALL GAY MEN!