Pk triangl were origally ed ncentratn mps to intify gay men.
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THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
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. * purple gay history *
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.
“The purple pixels of lor blend unnoticeably to both the pk and blue, jt as the ‘real world’ where most bi people blend unnoticeably to both the gay/lbian and straight muni, ” Page wrote on his now archived blog, BiCafe.