Uny and Ristance: The History Behd the Gay Pri Flag

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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.

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WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?

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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.

UNY AND RISTANCE: THE HISTORY BEHD THE GAY PRI FLAG

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 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.

HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

He had been missned to sign a symbol for the LGBTQ muny by his iend Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California.

He was missned to create a flag by another gay in, polician Harvey Milk, for San Francis’s annual pri cisn to enlist Baker proved serendipo, as the ia of a flag to reprent the gay and lbian muny had occurred to him two years earlier. As Baker told the Mm of Morn Art durg a 2015 terview, he had been spired by the celebratns markg Ameri’s bicentennial 1976, notg that the nstant display of stars and strip ma him realize the cultural need for a siar rallyg sign for the gay muny.

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How the rabow beme the symbol of gay pri - The Washgton Post.

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