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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history - the academic word for flag making and heraldry.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harvey Milk was a friend of mine, an important gay leader in San Francisco in the '70s, and he carried a really important message about how important it was to be visible, how important it was to come out, and that was the single most important thing we had to do.
- Lie
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Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say - to get out of the lie.
- Rainbow
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A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.
- Power
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I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will. And flags are about proclaiming power, so it's very appropriate.
- Enraged
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Anita Bryant is an important figure in gay history because she enraged a generation of people who got active.
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Anita Bryant had the effect of galvanizing the whole gay movement. She was somebody whom everybody could hate. She was easy to hate.
- Lock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was afraid my family would lock me up and give me electroshock. I was a screaming queen.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.
- Flag
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That's really how I ended up making the first flag - I was the guy who could sew it.
- Freedom
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The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.
- Myself
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I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag, knowing that it's a safe place where I can be myself.
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In 1978, when I thought of creating a flag for the gay movement, there was no other international symbol for us than the pink triangle, which the Nazis used to identify homosexuals in concentration camps. Even though the pink triangle was and still is a powerful symbol, it was very much forced upon us.
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