Pride
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San Francisco: The Original Rainbow Flag (1978)
The original Rainbow Flag was designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978 with 8 stripes. He assigned a specific universal meaning to each color: Sex, Life, Healing, Sunlight, Nature, Magic, Serenity, and Spirit. However, the Rainbow Flag that has been predominantly used throughout history has only 6 colors. This change had nothing to do with the…
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New York: Stonewall Riots (28.06.1969)
The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous riots and demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.…
