Happy Gay Pride

and the history of our (rainbow) flag, generously lifted from
http://www.thecastro.net/

It was designed by Gilbert Baker in San Francisco and first appeared in a gay parade in 1978. The original flag was huge and was made at the Gay Community Center at 330 Grove St, near City Hall. The flag was made of white muslin and the stripes were sponge-dyed. There was no permit to fly the flag, but with a bit of wheeling-dealing by Harvey Milk, on the morning of the parade a small group of conspirators managed to raise the flag on the tall flagpole on the northwest corner of the Civic Center. It was a big hit and eventually became an international symbol for gay pride. Originally it had 8 color stripes. The two that are missing from the current flag are pink and turquoise. When they started mass producing the flags in the early 1980's, they couldn't get fabrics in those two colors, so they dropped them. In the beginning of the year 2000, The 30 X 20 foot flag that flies above Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro regained those two stripes and as of September 2001, still has 8 stripes. What does that mean? I tracked down Gilbert Baker and he said that he replaced the 2 additional colors on the large Castro flag. The Rainbow Flag will celebrate its 25th Anniversary in 2003 and reverting to the original 8-color flag was in preparation for the celebration. I wonder if it means we all have to trade in our old flags for the new model, kind of in the spirit of planned obsolescence.

The colors represent:
HOT PINK = sex, RED = life, ORANGE = healing, YELLOW = sun, GREEN = serenity with nature, TURQUOISE = art, INDIGO = harmony, VIOLET = spirit

The flag in the Castro is now back to 6 colors.

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Updated On: 6/16/07 at 11:10 AM

Happy GP to all of you.


check out these video responses to "ask a gay guy's" 'Show your Pride' on youtube. Most are very sweet sentiments- there are a couple not so nice ones but I only saw two.

http://www.youtube.com/video_response_view_all?v=RVb5r5X4gPk

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That's why I nominate you as King Nutty Fruit of California. It's a lifetime position.

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I posted a video for William:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLSjeavtrX0

Yes, it's stuff from my show. Yes, I am a whore. But at least this is gay pride whoring!

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great video jerby.....great.

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Pride in Brisbane was yesterday...I worked the whole day, and opened (from 5am this morning)...but I still made my way out!
Was fun!

HAPPY PRIDE EVERYBODY!

Oh I remember a gay pride in Chicago.....think it was 1994, riding on the Deek's float.....basically a flatbed truck with metal "walls?"...we had so much fun, I spent most of the time with the then current Drummer Boy, can't remember his name but a great guy, who got all excited suddenly and screamed "there's my Mom!!!" and she was in the crowd waving.....and then at the end the floats drove into Lincoln Park, where I "accidently" spilled beer on my ex when he came up to the float......although to this day he thinks it was no accident, well...maybe, I was drunk by then and who remembers?
I have always enjoyed Chicago parades.....

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rainbow room was open but no one showed up x_X

oh well there's always next week.

and the 30th is also hartford pride! :)

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Updated On: 6/17/07 at 04:02 PM

cheeze, I realized that at brunch, I am such an idiot....I was a week ahead.......must be the heat.......boy do I feel stupid.

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that must be it, lol (thanks)

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a moving movie, one of my fav "gay" movies.

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