They whispered that she would never be like them, and that her future was in the mountains working as a shepherd. That is how her time passed, Emma became increasingly beautiful and the hatred from her classmates increased. They were all the daughters of rich businessmen in the village and Emma was a shepherd´s daughter. They mocked her for not wearing the best dresses and the best shoes, but they actually envied her because Emma was a very pretty girl and none of her classmates had such beauty.Įmma was conscious of her father´s effort to pay for her to go to class, so even though she was sad, every morning she opened her blue eyes and help her mum before going to school, Emma was actually a very good student. When Emma went to school for the first time it was not easy for her at all because the girls in her class did not like to study with a peasant from the mountains. Years passed and Emma´s parents decided it was time to send her to the school in the village. They spent the nights in front of the fire staring at the rolls and telling stories about their day. Designed for one parade in 1978, it's now one of the most recognized symbols in the world.As Emma grew, one of her favorite activities was to go out to look after the sheep with her father, sharing jam rolls with him and contemplating the amazingly warm tones of the sky at dusk.Īt night, she liked to help her mom bake rolls on the clay stove that they also used as a heater. 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. 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. 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

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