The rare fragmentpresumed lost for more than four decadesresurfaced last year, writes Peter-Astrid Kane for the Guardian. Per a statement, its creators included queer artists Gilbert Baker, Lynn Segerblom and James McNamara, as well as more than 30 volunteers.
Now an internationally recognized symbol of LGBTQ pride and civil rights, the rainbow flag design was conceived by a group of activists in San Francisco in 1978. Earlier this month, the GLBT Historical Society Museum unveiled a glass case containing a rare artifact: a segment of the original rainbow gay pride flag, its colors as vibrant as ever. June 2021 Smithsonian Magazine article Long-Lost Fragment of First Rainbow Pride Flag Resurfaces After Four Decades The brilliantly colored bannernow on view in San Franciscoflew on "Gay Freedom Day" in 1978Ī priceless piece of queer history has returned home to San Francisco, reports Ezra David Romero for KQED.
Gay men and lesbians tried to be accepting and tolerant, opening up our organizations to the TQ+ crowd, but the only response we've gotten from them is shitting on our culture and history and medicalizing our youth. Therefore, if you want to be part of the gay/lesbian community, you don't go around calling us bigots for our sexual desires, you don't go around attempting to indoctrinate gay/lesbian youth into putting chemicals into their bodies or chopping off parts of their bodies, you don't go around attempting to rewrite our history, etc. It's the same as people wanting to come to the United States: sure, the tired and poor can come to our nation, but the price of citizenship (inclusion) is you agree with the political philosophy that underlines our founding documents - representative democracy, freedom of/from religion, freedom of speech, etc. R27, until they can give me a valid reason for inclusion, they're on their own.