Flags hang from the balcony outside og Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman's office as Trump supporters rally below. Credit: Christopher Evens/Alamy Live News The flag he holds is part of The Flags of Justice, a group from Whosoever MCC church, and includes the Peace, Trans and Black Philly Pride flag. John Speer, 74, a member of Whosoever Metropolitan Community Church rides a SEPTA bus to Murrell Dobbins Vocational School for a teach-in celebrating the radical legacy of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Credit: Christopher Evens/Alamy Live News Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. From then until April 1969, the New Jersey conducted frequent bombardments along the
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The USS New Jersey was recalled to duty during the Vietnam War and recommissioned in April 1968. The New Jersey was recommissioned in November 1950 for the Korean War and served two combat tours. It was commissioned in May 1943 and served in the Pacific during World War II. The USS New Jersey, a 45,000-ton Iowa class battleship, was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pa. From then until April 1969, the New Jersey conducted frequent bombardments along the The Admiral’s Flag Bridge on the USS New Jersey (BB-62), Battleship New Jersey Museum & Memorial, berthed at Camden, N.J., March 11, 2021.
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Designed for one parade in 1978, it's now one of the most recognized symbols in the world.The Admiral’s Flag Bridge on the USS New Jersey (BB-62), Battleship New Jersey Museum & Memorial, berthed at Camden, N.J., March 11, 2021. The LGBT pride version of the flag designed by Gilbert Baker has become the most famous of the rainbow flags. And in Peru and Bolivia, the rainbow "Flag of Cusco" is a symbol of the indigenous Inca people.
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The Jewish Autonomous Oblast based in Birobidzhan, a sort of satellite government of Russia located on the Chinese border in Birobidzhan, uses a rainbow flag as its own symbol. In Italy, it's used as a symbol of peace, often with the word "PACE" written in white across the flag's stripes. In 2001, one version added a black stripe for AIDs awareness.Īside from LGBT pride, rainbow flags have other historic and political meanings that persist today. One version unfurled in Philadelphia this year added black and brown, for racial inclusivity. The flag has been modified in different places at different times. The White House illuminated in rainbow colors after 2015's Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage. Judy Garland, the star of "The Wizard of Oz," has a large following as a gay symbol, and is famous for singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in the movie. The rainbow also has some pop culture significance for the LGBT community.
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The rainbow is so perfect because it really fits our diversity in terms of race, gender, ages, all of those things." We needed something beautiful, something from us. It came from such a horrible place of murder and holocaust and Hitler. "It was necessary to have the Rainbow Flag because up until that we had the pink triangle from the Nazis - it was the symbol that they would use. The rainbow flag was a way of taking these various colors and turning them into a coherent symbol, reclaimed by the LGBT community. During the Holocaust, Nazis forced gay men to wear pink triangles as a symbol of sexual deviance. Oscar Wilde wore a green carnation, and yellow served the same purpose in Australia, and purple provided that function in some communities in the United States. I realized I would have to make some compromises in order for this to really function as a symbol."Ĭloseted gay people have also historically used bright colors to signal their homosexuality to each other, as Forrest Wickman wrote in Slate. "Even to do four-color printing for photographs like this was complicated. " One of the reasons I had to adapt the eight-color version to the six-color version of the flag - the one we use today - is because in 1978 eight colors was expensive," Baker told the Museum of Modern Art. The longest rainbow pride flag ever, in Key West in 2003.Īndy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau/Getty Images