Pride Month

The original design for the pride flag commissioned by Harvey Milk for the first gay pride parade in San Francisco in the 70's was actually supposed to contain additional colors but the manufacturer Milk contracted with to produce the flags didn't have all the colors he asked for so he proposed the familiar rainbow design as an alternative.

Whoever that man was, the world needs him now more than ever.

Beyond that it covers the Fag Tags used in SF not anywhere else, the colours you hang out your backside advertised YOU and what you would Do, the term fag tag used to be open to anyone in any port who hung round a area with sailors with money to spend. Back in the late 50's and early 60's SanFransico tried to organise that so RGB meant one thing GRB meant another etc and it spread into the underground Sexual thing and then the wider LGBT lingua franca, and started replacing the local Gay and bi symobols.

For example Brass Rings mean Hetro Prostitute, Red silk means Male protitute, Both means anybodys gold, and there was a lot more symbolisom but that is still what carries on today. There was also "Sailor Hotels" that caterd to people of differign intrests and where known by the dockers and sailors
 
Made a more conventional version of this flag for the lulz. Attached file is the SVG if anyone wants to convert it to a more HQ version or just wants to fuck with it.

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The original design for the pride flag commissioned by Harvey Milk for the first gay pride parade in San Francisco in the 70's was actually supposed to contain additional colors but the manufacturer Milk contracted with to produce the flags didn't have all the colors he asked for so he proposed the familiar rainbow design as an alternative.

Whoever that man was, the world needs him now more than ever.
You may want to rethink that last sentence.
 
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