The Orig of the Gay Men’s Pri Flag and Its Meang - #GAYNRD

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The brilliantly lored banner—now on view San Francis—flew on "Gay Freedom Day" 1978

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THE ORIG OF THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG AND ITS MEANG

Pri Flag roundup looks at the var LGBTQ pri flags the muny. The pri flag meang and pri flag lors are also explaed here tail tanm wh LGBTQ Pri Month. Gay, lbian and transgenr symbols tailed as well. * original flag gay *

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.

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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. * original flag gay *

It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag.

Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials the U.

S., to create a symbol of pri for the gay muny. As he later said an terview, “Our job as gay people was to e out, to be visible, to live the tth, as I say, to get out of the lie. The first versns of the rabow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para.

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