Creating the rainbow flag

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talking

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about the need for a new symbol that

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would connect us all and one day Gilbert

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told Cleve about an idea he had come up

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with he showed me the drawings he'd done

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and I saw the power of it right away

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and each other had special significance

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one color meant love another was

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honestly I think he kind of made that up

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after the fact it came to him as he said

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from the sky with a team of volunteers

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including Cleve Gilbert sewed and dyed

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the flags in preparation for gay freedom

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day

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when those first flags went up these

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enormous polls and the wind took them

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and lifted them up against the blue sky

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it was really breathtaking hilburn I

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stood there and watched and we knew that

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everybody that was there was looking up

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at those rainbows and knowing at that

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exact moment that this now would be our

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symbol to take this beautiful symbol

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from nature and say this is the symbol

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of these people who were called

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unnatural who were required to live in

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the shadows he really devoted his life

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not only to making flags but banners for

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a