Flags are born to differentiate countries, their main objective is establish borders, dividing people by simple definitions of beliefs and situations. Unlike all the flags that exist in the world, the rainbow flag or the multicolored flag, is a flag of multi-dreams, thoughts, origins, sexual orientations, but above all unity. Is the only flag that represents diversity, equality and hope. It does not put barriers, but unites entire cities with a single concept: We are all different, and that makes us exactly the same. Equal before the laws and before the opportunities.
But how did it come about?
In its origins the cabbage
or which represented the LGBTI community It was violet. The color born from the union of masculine and feminine (red and blue). It was undoubtedly the mixture of both that created the perfect color to represent the homosexual collective.
At a time when the fight for equality was being born, a discreet violet symbol showed the world that they "understood."
During the 1969 year various groups demonstrated in front of the newspaper offices The Examiner, in San Francisco, protesting the publications, almost daily of this, against the homosexuality. The newspaper workers, far from listening to them, threw violet paint on the protesters. Bañad @ s by this color, homosexual pride was born and they raised their hands leaving the mark, of freedom and diversity, on the walls of the building based in San Francisco.
This day, history in LGBTI history, was the birth of a symbol and a struggle that is still in force today.
However the first sign of the diversity of colors we find it in the first gay concentration of the USA during the funeral of the actress Judy Garland, in 1969, that I interpret Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. At their funeral, they concentrated near 22.000 people, many of them belonging to the homosexual collective.
The hard blow that supposed the death of the actress, was reflected in the city of New York, which was surpassed by the great number of fans that in full persecution and lynching by homophobic citizens and the police, they all joined a voice singing the famous melody; Somewhere, over the Rainbow (Somewhere over the rainbow), and screaming; "Judy lives" o "Judy is here".
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This altercation was formed around the pub Stonewall Inn, symbol of freedom and struggle for equality.
Origin of the LGBTI flag
One year later, the 28 of June of 1970, the first march of the Gay Pride would be realized in commemoration of the day in which the LGBTI community said enough and fought against homophobia. During the same period, a colored flag was born by the hippie movement of the 70s (1978th century) that used it to claim civil rights, of everyone alike. But it wasn't until XNUMX, eight years later, at the Gay & Lesbian Freedom Parade, that the rainbow flag made its mark. first presence as a homosexual symbol.
Gilbert Baker designed the gay flag for diversity, and was waved with pride, and for the first time, on June 25 of that same year, at the San Francisco Pride Festival.
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The first gay flag was formed by 8 horizontal stripes of 8 different colors,
which symbolized all the principles defended by the homosexual movement.
The 27 of November the LGBTI flag again rises for the second time in the streets of San Francisco. This being the moment when its popularity increased, and was claimed as Emblem for gay collectives in all the parades and protest manifestations. With the great demand of the community, its creator Baker proposed to the manufacturers of the "Paramount Flag Company" the reproduction on a massive scale to have them ready for the 1979 parade. But the manufacturers found an inconvenience with the color pink, and that year the flag showed off in only 7 colors. One year later, due to the complexity of separating the ranges blue, and The cost of production, the indigo was completely eliminated, creating the Flag of 6 colors. Flag that can be seen today, in almost every corner of the world, Waving for equality and diversity.
Being different is what makes us the same.
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