It has become a big hit ever since it made its debut in 2012 with over 10 million hits.
It is a comedy mystery web series which won the 2012 “Best Gay Web Series”. This is an internet show about the Bear pride community. In class we watched a short clip from “Where the Bears Are”. Gay pride and bear pride along with leather pride are the top three pride groups that usually attend pride fests. (the flag on the left is the original 8 color flag and the flag in the middle is the present 6 color flag and the flag on the right is the ear pride flag) Each color represents all the different types of real bears all around the world.
He came up with the official design in 1995 as the bear pride community was growing. Craig Byrnes was the designer of the Bear Pride flag. The other main one that I want to focus on is the Bear Pride flag, because this was the next pride flag that was created. These are only a few of the other pride there is many more. Some of these other pride flags are Leather Pride, Bear Pride, Bisexual Pride, Lesbian Pride, Transgender Pride, Asexual Pride, and Feather Pride. Among the gay pride flag there is other pride flags that represent different pride groups. The first gay pride flag was created by Gilbert Baker. Each of the colors represent a different aspect of life. Today’s gay pride flag has only six colors. As Pride points out, a plethora of other flags were designed to represent different groups within the LGBTQIA+ community.The very first gay pride flag made its first appearance in 1978. Today, there are even more pride flags out there. Here are the meanings behind the colors in the current pride flag: The blue that replaced the indigo now symbolizes harmony. Baker dropped yet another stripe, which resulted in the six-stripe version of the flag we use most often today-red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. According to Baker's estate, that was because when it was hung vertically from the lamp posts of San Francisco's Market Street, the center stripe (turquoise) was obscured by the similarly-colored lamp post itself.
As excerpted on the website for his estate, Gilbert's memoir, Rainbow Warrior, includes his memory of deciding to make the rainbow flag: The trio encouraged Baker to create a positive emblem for the LGBTQIA+ community.īaker agreed and he looked to his community for inspiration, specifically those dancing at San Francisco's music venue Winterland Ballroom one night. In the late '70s, Baker was living in San Francisco when he met writer Cleve Jones, filmmaker Artie Bressan, and rising activist Harvey Milk. The First Rainbow FlagĮnter: Gilbert Baker, the man who would create the first rainbow pride flag. Still, activists recognized the need for a more empowering symbol. "Gay people wear the pink triangle today as a reminder of the past and a pledge that history will not repeat itself," read one 1977 letter to the editor in Time. In the late 1970s, the pink triangle was somewhat reclaimed by the gay community. Throughout the Holocaust, the Nazis forced those whom they labeled as gay to wear inverted pink triangle badges, just as they forced Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David. This triangle, however, had a loaded, anti-gay history. Before the rainbow pride flag was created, there was another symbol for the LGBTQIA+ community: a pink triangle.