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At long last, it’s June - the month widely celebrated as LGBT Pride Month in honor of the Stonewall riots in 1969. We often see the iconic rainbow flag displayed as a symbol of pride and the LGBTQIA+ rights movement - but how much do we know about its origins and its creator, Gilbert Baker? In 1977, the first openly gay person was elected to hold a high public office in a major American city. This man was Harvey Milk, who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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Milk had campaigned on a message of hope for young LGBTQ+ youth and urged and inspired Gilbert Baker, another openly gay man and a drag queen, to create a new symbol of pride for the community. At that time, the symbol widely used was a pink triangle, reclaimed from its use in the Holocaust, where it was imposed by Nazis to identify and persecute homosexuals. (A Brief History of the Rainbow Flag, 2021)
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