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Nation__
Mayor raises gay flag over
city hall to launch SF pride
By Ron Harris
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — For a city
where diversity is always on display,
the raising of a rainbow flag symboliz-
ing gay pride atop City Hall was per-
haps its most colorful event yet.
Mayor Willie Brown, city supervi-
sors and leaders in the gay community
raised the flag on the most honored
flagpole Monday to celebrate the city's
gay and lesbian community.
"It's a great, great and glorious
month to be queer," said Board of
Supervisors President Tom Ammiano,
who is gay. He joined the mayor in hon-
oring several members of the city's gay
community, including the man who
designed the flag in 1978 as a symbol of
gay pride and diversity.
"The rainbow has always been a
symbol of liberation. It goes back a long
ways. The rainbow really fit our move-
ment because it has colors, diversity,"
Gilbert Baker said. "It is a worldwide
symbol for gay pride now. This is
beyond my wildest dreams."
Baker was honored with a proclama-
tion dubbing him the "gay Betsy Ross"
and praising his efforts to bring the
symbolic rainbow flag to all corners of
the globe.
TEe flag raised outside City Hall was
the original 1978 flag with eight hand-
dyed color bands. The hot pink and
lavender bands were later dropped
from the flag's design due to produc-
tion constraints.
Also honored at the city hall event
were local members of PFLAG (Parents,
Families and Friends of Lesbians and
The original rainbow flag, designed
by Gilbert Baker in 1978, will fly from
the San Francisco City Hall flagpole
through the remainder of June.
Gays) and Raising Colors, an organiza-
tion that has lined the streets of San
Francisco with hundreds of rainbow
flags each June since 1984.
In San Francisco, rainbow flags can
be seen throughout the city, hanging
from apartment windows and store-
fronts, pasted as stickers on car wind-
shields and incorporated into the
design logo for local businesses.
Monday's flag raising coincides with
the upcoming Pride Parade and
Celebration this weekend. The rainbow
flag at City Hall will remain in place
through the rest of the month. ▼
NYC, where '69 riots launched gay
movement, begins week-long test
By Beth Gardiner
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Stephan von Cline
can hardly believe the changes he's
seen since he rioted 30 years ago with a
group of men protesting police raids of
the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in
Greenwich Village.
He handed out programs and chat-
ted with friends at Bryant Park on
Sunday as thousands of gay men and
women gathered beneath rainbow-col-
ored balloons to listen to music and
speeches celebrating gay pride. The day
kicked off a week packed with events
commemorating the 30th anniversary
of the Stonewall riot, which launched
the gay-rights movement in 1969.
"This is thrilling to us, who had to
hide and be frightened before the riot,"
said von Cline, 58, an art and antiques
appraiser who lives in Franklin Lakes,
N.J. "Any of us who came to this park
and were noticed would have been
arrested."
His friend Philip Eagles marveled,
too.
"Thirty years ago [the police] want-
ed to beat the shit out of us," he said.
"Today they're here to protect us."
Many of the men and women at
Sunday's rally weren't even alive dur-
ing the Stonewall riot. But they were
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