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icon7.gif Want to know about the Rainbow Flag?  [message #22864] Thu, 11 November 2004 16:10 Go to next message
smith is currently offline  smith

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When Gilbert Baker made the first Rainbow Flag in San FRancisco in 1978, he dyed and sewed it by hand. He picked 8 colors, and gave them each a meaning:

pink for sexuality
red for life
orange for healing
yellow for the sun
green for nature
blue for art
indigo for harmony
violet for spirit

When he tried to get his flag mass produced, the flag makers told him that pink was not available, so the pink was removed.

Harvey Milk, San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor, was assassinated in November, 1978. When the first Pride Parade was being planned to honor Milk's memory, they also hoped that hate crimes like that would never be repeated. The planning committee asked Baker if they could use his flag. They wanted to use 3 colors on each side of the street, so indigo was taken off the flag.

Today, 26 years later, the 6 striped Rainbow Flag is recognized by the International Congress of Flag Makers and represents the strength of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

**Sadly, a beautiful flag will not stop hate crimes, but the hope is still very much alive.

Just thought you might like to know ~
smith
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Re: Want to know about the Rainbow Flag?  [message #22868 is a reply to message #22864] Thu, 11 November 2004 20:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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A little known fact about the alleged ROYGBIV spectrum is that "I" never existed anyway. It was "added" to give a magic number of colours when the spectrum was "defined"

Now I always rememebred the spectrum by saying that little aide memoire "Richard of York got buggered in Venice". Odd how the mind works.



Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
Re: Want to know about the Rainbow Flag?  [message #22871 is a reply to message #22868] Fri, 12 November 2004 02:35 Go to previous message
joesdog is currently offline  joesdog

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Some minds, of course, are a little odder than others...lol



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