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  • - [Cleve] In many, many different cultures,

  • the rainbow appears as a symbol of hope, beauty, love.

  • In many ways the rainbow flag

  • might be more important than ever.

  • - [Narrator] Our story begins in San Francisco

  • in the late 1960s.

  • - [Cleve] Young gay men, lesbian women were arriving

  • from all over the country and all around the world,

  • many of them fleeing places where they were

  • experiencing incredible violence and repression.

  • - [Narrator] One of those men was Gilbert Baker.

  • - [Cleve] Everyone was aware of Gilbert.

  • He was extremely dramatic.

  • I think the operative word would be flamboyant.

  • - [Narrator] That's Cleve Jones.

  • He wrote this book.

  • - [Cleve] When We Rise, My Life in the Movement.

  • - [Narrator] Cleve and Gilbert met as two young activists

  • planning the 1977 San Francisco Gay Pride event.

  • - [Cleve] Back then it was called Gay Freedom Day.

  • We were all part of a circle of activists

  • who were talking about the need for a new symbol

  • that would connect us all.

  • - [Narrator] And one day, Gilbert told Cleve

  • about an idea he had come up with.

  • - [Cleve] He showed me the drawings he'd done,

  • and I saw the power of it right away.

  • - [Narrator] And each color had special significance.

  • One color meant love, another was--

  • - [Cleve] Honestly I think he kind of made that up

  • after the fact.

  • It came to him as he said "from the sky."

  • - [Narrator] With a team of volunteers including Cleve,

  • Gilbert sewed and dyed the flags in preparation

  • for Gay Freedom Day.

  • - [Cleve] When those first flags

  • went up these enormous poles,

  • and the wind took them and lifted them up

  • against the blue sky, it was really breathtaking.

  • Gilbert and I stood there and watched and we knew

  • that everybody that was there

  • was looking up at those rainbows and knowing

  • at that exact moment, this now would be our symbol.

  • To take this beautiful symbol from nature

  • and say this is the symbol of these people

  • who were called unnatural,

  • who were required to live in the shadows,

  • he really devoted his life not only to making flags

  • but banners.

- [Cleve] In many, many different cultures,

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彩虹旗如何成為LGBTQ驕傲的象徵? (How the Rainbow Flag Became a Symbol of LGBTQ Pride)

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    許大善 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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