The brilliantly lored banner—now on view San Francis—flew on "Gay Freedom Day" 1978
Contents:
- GAY HISTORY: THE COMPLETE GUI TO EVERY QUEER PRI FLAG
- GAY PRI
- WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
GAY HISTORY: THE COMPLETE GUI TO EVERY QUEER PRI FLAG
* 1978 gay pride 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.
GAY PRI
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A segment of the origal rabow flag, signed and created by the late artist Gilbert Baker for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para June 1978 and thought to be lost sce then, was recently redisvered and donated to the cy’s GLBT Historil Society Mm and Archiv.
Both flags were raised at San Francis’s Uned Natns Plaza durg the 1978 Gay Freedom Day celebratns.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
“It was necsary to have the Rabow Flag bee up until that we had the pk triangle om the Nazis— was the symbol that they would e [to note gay people], " Baker said an terview wh New York’s Mm of Morn Art 2015 when the stutn acquired his sign for s permanent llectn.