Is That Skeleton Gay? The Problem Wh Projectg Morn Ias Onto The Past

Contents:

• LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’
• SKELETON GAY PRI STICKER
• IS THAT SKELETON GAY? THE PROBLEM WH PROJECTG MORN IAS ONTO THE PAST

LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’

Origal pri flag — June 1978The first rabow pri flag was signed Gilbert Barker and unveiled durg the San Francis Gay Freedom Day on June 25, 1978. Philly Mag reported that a source volved wh the event said, “The black and brown strip are an clnary way to highlight Black and brown LGBTQIA members wh our muny.”“Wh all of the black and brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny,” the statement ntued.

Acrdg to TriPri, the flag is meant to reprent the QPOC muny, pecially as relat to the ti that have bound the Black and queer muni sce the ceptn of the gay liberatn movement. Today, Two-Spired people are dividuals that intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, other genred dividuals, as well as third or fourth genred dividuals who live and intify between the worlds and genrs. Bear pri flagThe bear pri flag celebrat a subculture of the LGBTQ muny that refers to gay or bisexual men who have facial and/or body hair and embrace fortably wh masculy and their bodi, acrdg to Montclair State Universy.

"Reynolds grew up Mormon, and he's long been open about his journey to rencile the church's anti-gay doctre wh his own support for gay rights. The Lake Bluff Village Board is nsirg raisg a gay pri flag on a village flagpole, but tste are lookg for addnal rmatn before takg formal members discsed the ia at a July 10 Commtee of the Whole meetg, rumg a nversatn that began at a June ssn after two rints ntacted village officials supportg the ia of raisg a pri flag, acrdg to village documents. It was created 1977 by Gilbert Baker, an artist, activist, and openly gay ary veteran.

SKELETON GAY PRI STICKER

As the mand for the flag started to rise after the assassatn of gay San Francis Cy Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978. The addn of black and brown strip to the tradnal pri flag symbolized people of lor, who historilly were not always clud aspects of the mastream gay rights movement.

The way that bisexual people n blend to the straight muny and the gay muny.

For example, someone uld be gay one day, then be asexual the next, then polysexual the next.

IS THAT SKELETON GAY? THE PROBLEM WH PROJECTG MORN IAS ONTO THE PAST

Gay Men’s Pri Flag.

The Gay Men’s Pri Flag is another lser known pri flag. This morn gay men’s pri flag is a revamp of an earlier gay men’s pri flag that featured a range of blue ton. The updated flag is meant to be clive of a much wi range of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg men.

The term is scribed as a rponse to gay pri adopted by var groups (later uned unr the moniker LGBT) the early 1970s, or to the acmodatns provid to gay pri iativ. The Straight Ally flag is g the black-whe "lors" of the heterosexual flag as a field, adds a large rabow lored "A" (for "Ally") to dite straight support for the Gay Pri/Equal Marriage movement.