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ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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 unirns.It 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. Strewn across flags, banners, and ps, the rabow symboliz the diversy of gays and lbians around the world. The Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs Edburgh formally adopted the symbol as an in for gay and lbian rights 1974.

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

Tradnally, the symbol is drawn pla black, but more recent versns pict the double mars wh the rabow lors filled to symbolize the gays’ aterny or solidary wh other subsectors of the muny. The pk triangle symbol was first ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals their ncentratn mps. Over the urse of the send world war, an timated 10, 000 to 15, 000 homosexuals were rcerated.

The symbol has sce been reclaimed as a symbol of Pri and remembrance of the horrors that gay men experienced Nazi Germany. Green was a mon lor to refer to homosexuals, back 19th-century England.

This was a practice popularized by thor Osr Wil who was openly gay and would proudly wear a green rnatn at public events. Back the 20th century New York, gay men would wear a red necktie or bow tie or basilly any red accsory to subtly reprent their inti and help intify members of the same muny. Burke, who was believed to be gay, got chewed out often by his ach.

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Fortunately, after retirg at age 27, Burke ught a send wd and domated the Gay Softball World Seri where he kept the practice of givg high-fiv to his teammat.

Smh lled the high five a “fiant symbol of gay pri”. Boston artists Daniel Thaxton and Bernie Toale ed a lavenr rhoceros to symbolize the gay muny for their 1970s public ad mpaign led by Gay Media Actn Advertisg. The ads were ed to enurage more visibily for members of the gay muny Boston at the time.

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Uganda's LGBTQ muny is ' shock' over new measure, gay activist says .

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