Parade organizers for the 1979 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. The pink stripe was dropped between 19 because they ran out of pink dye.
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On the original flag, the hot hot pink stripe represented sex, the red stripe represented life, the orange stripe represented healing, the yellow stripe represented sunlight, the green stripe represented nature, the turquoise stripe represented magic/art, the Indigo stripe represented serenity, and the violet stripe represents spirit. The Gay Freedom Day Parade became the International Lesbian & Gay Freedom Day Parade in 1981, and the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration in 1995. The flags’s name and that festival’s name have both changed over time to explicitly include more queer communities. From the outset it was used to represent the whole community at the Gay Freedom Day Parade. Harvey Milk was a friend of Baker’s and his message of the importance of visibility influenced Baker. The LGBT Rainbow flag was originally the called the Gay Pride Flag when it was introduced in 1978. On the current flag, the red stripe represents life, the orange stripe represents healing, the yellow stripe represents sunlight, the green stripe represents nature, the blue stripe represents serenity and the violet stripe represents spirit. The current flag has 6 even horizontal stripes which are colored (top to bottom) red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.
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– Amended from The Transgender Language Primer. It refers to a population of people united by having gender identities or sexual orientations that differ from the heterosexual, and cisgender majority. “An acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, and others. ” Someone, who can be transgender or cisgender, who is generally attracted or cisgenderattracted to someone of the same gender. Original Design: Unveiled at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade 25 June 1978.Ĭurrent design: Unveiled at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade 24 June 1979.