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(flags) Fox News guest compares the homosexuals to Charlottesville white supremacists
https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-pride-flag-confederate-flag-7867e253f173/ZACK FORD at Think Progress
"SNIP...........
Perhaps Parker is not familiar with the history of these two symbols.
The Confederate flag was flown when 11 southern states declared war on their own country, seeking the right to preserve the institution of slavery.
Artist Gilbert Baker, who passed away just a few months ago, first designed the pride flag in 1978 after being challenged by Harvey Milk to devise a symbol for the gay community with a more positive connotation than the pink triangle — which was used by Nazis to identify gay people. His original eight-stripe flag had symbology for each color: sexuality (hot pink), life (red), healing (orange), sunshine (yellow), nature (green), art (turqoise), harmony (indigo), and spirit (violet).
When it first flew at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day in 1978, Baker recalled, “It completely astounded me that people just got it, in an instant like a bolt of lightening – that this was their flag. It belonged to all of us.”
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