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Contents:
- BIN BREAKS FLAG PROTOL; OLD GLORY FLANKS GAY PRI FLAG
- WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
BIN BREAKS FLAG PROTOL; OLD GLORY FLANKS GAY PRI 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. Prr to World War II, there wasn’t a universal sign or object for gay, trans, and/or queer people to e to build a muny around Ameri, let alone around the world. The pk triangle was ed Nazi Germany ncentratn mps durg the Holot to signify that a male prisoner was gay or queer.
After the end of the Nazi reign, the pk triangle no longer served that purpose, although many gay men were not eed after the Alli took ntrol of Germany 1945. Many saw rceratn well to the 1970s, and Germany would not end rceratn for gay people officially until 1994. In Ameri specifilly, gay people still had ltle rights or regnized muny.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
When the Lavenr Sre started, which creased discrimatn and ostracizatn of LGBTQ people, beg gay or trans beme associated wh munism and th, the stctn of life and society. Pk triangl would bee mon aga after The Men wh the Pk Triangle, the first tobgraphy of a gay ncentratn mp survivor, was published 1972. When the Gay Freedom Day Para — as ial Pri march were known — was beg planned San Francis 1978, Harvey Milk and others sought a symbol that would replace the triangle.