Key West - City Of Colors

Key West is a place where you can actually be yourself 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. You have gays, straights, Europeans, Latin Americans, Black, Cubans and White folks all living together on a 2 by 4 mile island. When you put people that close together, they tend to find ways to get along. and on this amazing island, this very diverse community celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Rainbow Flag by stretching the longest Rainbow Flag in history - 8,000 feet in all - from one end of the island to the other.

Meet Gilbert Baker, the gay Betsy Ross, who conceived the Rainbow Flag back in 1978 as a positive alternative to the pink triangle, the gay symbol devised by the Nazis. Watch as Gilbert and his talented team of Key West volunteers create a three-ton marvel, a flag that incorporates all eight colors of the original: fuchsia, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, but and purple, representing sex, life, healing, sunlight, nature, magic, serenity and spirit. As Baker Says, "our mission as gay people, as ´out´ gay people, is to give other gay people hope. The colors of the Rainbow Flag represent the promise that nothing bad will happen to us again."

Upplagd i sortimentet: 11 Januari, 2009