Living with color blindness

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never

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think like oh if I weren't color blind

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it would be so much easier to get

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dressed in the morning it's just it's

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kind of part of me I guess I'm a unicorn

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or something

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in many many different cultures the

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rainbow appears as a symbol of hope

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beauty love in many ways the rainbow

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flag might be more important than ever

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our story begins in San Francisco in the

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late 1960s young gay men lesbian women

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were arriving from all over the country

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and all around the world many of them

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fleeing places where they were

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experiencing incredible violence and

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repression one of those men was Gilbert

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Baker everyone was aware of Gilbert

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it was extremely dramatic I think the

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operative word would be flamboyant

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that's Cleve Jones he wrote this book

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when we rise my life in the movement

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Cleveland Gilbert met his two young

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activists planning the 1977 San

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Francisco gay pride event back that is

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called a freedom day we were all part of

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a circle of activists who were talking

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about the need for