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WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
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"Closeted gay people have also historilly ed bright lors to signal their homosexualy to each other, as Forrt Wickman wrote Slate.
WHY THE GAY PRI FLAG STILL MATTERS
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Acrdg to the History Channel, Harvey Milk, one of the untry’s first openly gay elected officials, missned artist Gilbert Baker to create the first rabow flag for San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para. Wh the help of his roommate, gay rights activist Cleve Jon, and others, Baker also signed and created an Amerin flag wh rabow strip stead of the ual red, whe and blue, and both flew over the 1978 Pri para, Refery29 of the hu of the rabow stand for a different aspect of LGBTQ+ Pri.