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Rabow Flag The rabow flag has bee the easily regnized lors of pri for the gay muny. The multicultural symbolism of the rabow is nothg new— Jse Jackson's Rabow Coaln also embrac the rabow as a symbol of that polil movement.

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HOW DID A THIRD-CENTURY CATHOLIC SAT BEE A GAY IN? HERE’S THE HOMOEROTIC HISTORY OF SAT SEBASTIAN

How did inography of Sat Sebastian bee popular the gay muny? Osr Wil was taken wh Guido Reni's patg the figure. * gay symbolism in art *

In an UK Gay News op-ed piece, Baker wrote: “In my view the rabow flag is unfished, as the movement reprents, an arc that begs well before me, s breadth far broar than all of our experienc put together, reachg the fartht rners of the world wh a msage of solidary and a bean of hope for those who follow our footsteps. Gay prisoners Nazi ncentratn mps were forced to wear the pk triangle to show that they were homosexuals, which meant that they often received worse treatment and as a rult were ls likely to survive the mps. Though not everyone embrac the pk triangle as a posive symbol of gay pri, the triangle and verted triangle have gone through untls variatns and rema popular.

SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE

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Like the rabow flag, the pk triangle is now an image found on pri badg, stickers, and t-shirts, and is a mon symbol ed to advertise gay-iendly events and activi. In an era before the femist and gay liberatn movements, the sensatnalized imag on the books’ vers were often the only way for women to read about lbianism. Like other sleazy publitns of the 50s and 60s, gay pulp fictn vers showed a fantasy world full of absurd clichés, sctive pos, and mcular bare chts.

While today pulp novels may seem lghably over-the-top, they are nohels important pop culture reprentatns of gays and lbians art.

HIDN PLA SIGHT: HOW GAY ARTISTS EXPRSED FORBIDN SIRE

Born New Jersey 1954, David Wojnarowicz endured an extremely abive fay life, stggled wh beg a gay youth and subsequently dropped out of high school by the age of 16. His art reflected that grief, anger, tratn and fear by drawg attentn to Amerin relig fundamentalism, nservatism, fear of the body, homophobia, enomic imperialism, all while raisg up the voic of margalized and stigmatized dividuals.

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How Did a Third-Century Catholic Sat Bee a Gay In? Here’s the Homoerotic History of Sat Sebastian .

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