A prentatn of the major symbols associated wh the gay, lbian, bisexual, and trangenr movements (and some general symbols thrown for good measure) and their histori.
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In New York, the early 20th century, gay men often wore a red bow tie or necktie to send a subtle signal to others. After Burke retired om baseball, he beme one of the first profsnal athlet to be openly gay.
Tom Doerr, a graphic signer, ed the symbol 1970 to reprent the Gay Activists Alliance of New York.
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In 1974, the Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs of Edburgh, Stland, officially ma the ternatnal symbol for gay and lbian rights.
It was created for a public ad mpaign signed to crease visibily of gay people the Boston area. In 1961, the San Francis Examer ran a seri of news articl that were rogatory toward people the muny’s gay clubs and bars. 60 members of the Gay Guerilla Theatre group, the Commtee for Homosexual Freedom, and the Gay Liberatn Front participated the prott.
Some groups tried to e the purple handprt as a warng to stop the anti-gay attacks, but was not succsful.
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It was popularized by Osr Wil, who was openly gay and often donned a green rnatn on his lapel. Combg the two female symbols an terlockg pattern is the symbol ed to reprent lbian, homosexual, and transgenr persons.
Sodomy laws all over Ameri attempted to outlaw gay sex by crimalizg any oral or anal erotic ntact.
And Dan Savage, a sex-advice lumnist then only known to rears of a few pennt alt-newspapers around the untry, was pable of makg breakout news wh a sndalo revelatn: Mattel’s latt Ken doll, part of the Earrg Magic le of Barbie toys, was openly moled on gay fashn. “What the ltle girls were seeg, and tellg Mattel was ol, wasn’t what their relatns were wearg — unls they had hip queer relativ — but the homoerotic fashns and imagery they were seeg on MTV, what they saw Madonna’s dancers wearg her ncerts and films and, as happens, what ACT UP/Queer Natn fags and dyk were wearg to mos and rav, ” Savage wrote. It was 3:15 on the morng of June 26, 1980, and Congrsman Bob Livgston was extraordarily dnk, hidg the ngrsnal gym beneath the Rayburn Hoe Office Buildg, petrified that a team of highly traed right-wg homosexual assasss workg on behalf of Ronald Reagan was about to kill him.