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GAY PRIDE FLAG, debuted at the 1978 San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade, was designed by Gilbert
Baker. It's inspiration came from the black civil rights and hippie movements.
Each color of the Gay Pride Flag, or Rainbow Flag, has a different meaning.
RED = Life
ORANGE = Healing
Yellow = Sun
GREEN = Nature
ROYAL BLUE = Harmony
VIOLET = Spirit
Adding a black stripe to the bottom of the flag represents victory over AIDS. It can also signify leather pride.
Baker. It's inspiration came from the black civil rights and hippie movements.
Each color of the Gay Pride Flag, or Rainbow Flag, has a different meaning.
RED = Life
ORANGE = Healing
Yellow = Sun
GREEN = Nature
ROYAL BLUE = Harmony
VIOLET = Spirit
Adding a black stripe to the bottom of the flag represents victory over AIDS. It can also signify leather pride.
| STONEWALL, for gay, lesbian and bisexual activists, the word signifies quite possibly the most important, single landmark in the worldwide struggle for gay rights. Most chroniclers of the homosexual rights movements trace the beginning of the movement's militant phase to 1969 and New York's lower-Manhattan (largely Gay-frequented) Stonewall Bar, at 53 Christopher Street. Therefore, for the first time on record, homosexual patrons fought back when Stonewall was raided one hot summer night by New York City policemen, who came hoping to arrest gay individuals for engaging in then illegal homosexual acts. Eyewitnesses claim that the homosexual patrons' counter-riot began when one burly, Stonewall patron hurled a lidded, metal garbage can filled with empty liquor bottles through a police car window. Ever since that night, Stonewall has been revered as an enduring symbol of the gay militant spark that lit that night, which has become a gay/lebian/bisexual militant conflagration setting America - and all the World - aflame with gay rights issues and conflicts. |
| PINK TRIANGLE. It is widely known that the Nazis forced Jewish people under their jurisdiction to wear yellow stars of David, weither they were in the community, in the ghettos or in the camps.The Nazis extended this classification scheme to other prisoners interned in the camps.In one common scheme, prisoners were classified according to crime and identified with colored triangula cloth. Pink triangles, often larger than triangles from other crimes, were used to identify men convicted of homosexuality (paragraph 175 of the Reich Penal Code), or incest or pedophelia (paragraphs 174 and 176). Dring the Holocaust, millions died including Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders all of whom were deemed imperfect for the new society. But even after the Nazis defeat, the discrimination against the LGBT community continued. Briefly freed from concentration camps by Allied troops, those prisoners wearing the pink triangle were returned to finish their sentence. Those who survived two imprisonments emerged as second-class citizens even under democratically elected governments. The non-criminalization of female homosexuality meant that lesbians were not intensively persecuted in the same way or the same degree as homosexual men, but they did suffer. |
| LAMBDA. In the early 1970's, in the wake of the Stonewall Rebellion, New York City's Gay Activist Alliance selected the Greek letter lambda, which member Tom Doerr suggested from its scientific use to designate kinetic potential, as an emblem. The lowercase Greek letter lambda carries several meanings. First of all, it represents scales, and thus balance. The Greeks considered balance to be the constant adjustment neccessary to keep opposing forces from overcoming each other. The hook at the bottom of the right leg of the lambda represents the action required to reach and maintain balance To the Spartans, the lambda means unity. They felt that society should never infringe on anyone's individuality and freedom. The Romans adopted the letter to represent "the light of knowledge shed into the darkness of ignorance." Finally, in physics the symbol designates an energy change. Thus the lambda, with all its meanings, is an especially apt symbol for the gay liberation movement, which energetically seeks a balance in society and which strives thru enlightenment to secure equal rights for homosexual people RED RIBBON. Worn over your heart, it's a symbol of AIDS awareness and rememberance for the over 40 million men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS is the world. |
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