الاعزاء ممكونة وباقي الاخوة المتداخلين..
وجدت صعوبة كبيرة في انزال هذه المادة وتحميلها بالصورة المطلوبة.. ارجو صادقة مساعدتي في انزالها مرة اخرى لاهميتها..
شكرا لك ممكونة على اثارة هذه النقطة، فقد كنت بصدد التحدث عن رمزية هذا اللون لدى الشواذ..تبع خطورة هذا الموضوع من اننا مساقون في هذا الدوامة دون ان ندري وكيف ان الاسرة هي المستهدفة في المقام الاول.
لعلكم تذكرون احداث مذبحة واكو التي حدثت في امريكا، في نهاية الثمانينات، وكان ابطالها جماعة ديفيد واكو، كما اعتقد.. كان اللون السائد لدى هذه الجماعة هو اللون البنفسجي.. لا يخفي على احد رمزية هذا اللون.. في العصور الوسطي كان هذا اللون لونا ملوكيا، لا يستخدمه سوى او الملوك او علية القوم في المجتمع..
وفي الوقت الراهن، ارتبط هذا اللون بهذه الجماعات، وصار شعارا لها.. اما اللون البنفسجي الذي يرتديه تينكي وينكي، فهو اللون رقم واحد من حيت الدرجة، وبالتالي قد يكون من حيث الاهميةالتراتبية...
ساعود لاحقا، كان الكومبيوتر ستر حالو معاي..
دمتم بالف خير..
حليمة
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[align=left]The Rainbow Flag
The Alyson Almanac: A Treasury of Information for the Gay and Lesbian
Community describes Rainbow Flag as follows:
In 1978, Gilbert Baker of San Francisco designed and made a flag with six
stripes representing the six colors of the rainbow as a symbol of gay and
lesbian community pride. Slowly the flag took hold, offering a colorful and
optimistic alternative to the more common pink triangle symbol. Today it is
recognized by the International Congress of Flag Makers, and is flown in
lesbian and gay pride marches worldwide. In 1989, the rainbow flag received
nationwide attention after John Stout successfully sued his landlords in
West Hollywood, when they prohibited him from displaying the flag from his
apartment balcony. Meanwhile, Baker is still in San Francisco, and still
making more flags.
The Rainbow Flag by Steven W. Anderson appeared in GAZE Magazine
(Minneapolis), #191, on 28 May 1993, p. 25:
Color has long played an important role in our community's expression of
pride. In Victorian England, for example, the color green was associated
with homosexuality. The color purple (or, more accurately, lavender) became
popularized as a symbol for pride in the late 1960s - a frequent
post-Stonewall catchword for the gay community was "Purple Power". And, of
course, there's the pink triangle. Although it was first used in Nazi
Germany to identify gay males in concentration camps, the pink triangle only
received widespread use as a gay pop icon in the early 1980s. But the most
colorful of our symbols is the Rainbow Flag, and its rainbow of colors -
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple - represents the diversity of
our community.
The first Rainbow Flag was designed in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a San
Francisco artist, who created the flag in response to a local activist's
call for the need of a community symbol. (This was before the pink triangle
was popularly used as a symbol of pride.) Using the five-striped "Flag of
the Race" as his inspiration, Baker designed a flag with eight stripes:
pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. According to
Baker, those colors represented, respectively: sexuality, life, healing,
sun, nature, art, harmony, and spirit. Baker dyed and sewed the material for
the first flag himself - in the true spirit of Betsy Ross.
Baker soon approached San Francisco's Paramount Flag Company about mass
producing and selling his "gay flag". Unfortunately, Baker had hand-dyed all
the colors, and since the color "hot pink" was not commercially available,
mass production of his eight-striped version became impossible. The flag was
thus reduced to seven stripes.
In November 1978, San Francisco's gay community was stunned when the city's
first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, was assassinated, Wishing to
demonstrate the gay community's strength and solidarity in the aftermath of
this tragedy, the 1979 Pride Parade Committee decided to use Baker's flag.
The committee eliminated the indigo stripe so they could divide the colors
evenly along the parade route - three colors on one side of the street and
three on the other. Soon the six colors were incorporated into a six-striped
version that became popularized and that, today, is recognized by the
International Congress of Flag Makers.
In San Francisco, the Rainbow Flag is everywhere: it can be seen hanging
from apartment windows throughout the city (most notably in the Castro
district), local bars frequently display the flag, and Rainbow Flag banners
are hung from lampposts on Market Street (San Francisco's main avenue)
throughout Pride Month. Visiting the city, one can not help but feel a
tremendous sense of pride at seeing this powerful symbol displayed so
prominently.
Although the Rainbow Flag was initially used as a symbol of pride only in
San Francisco, it has received increased visibility in recent years. Today,
it is a frequent sight in a number of other cities as well - New York, West
Hollywood, and Amsterdam, among them. Even in the Twin Cities, the flag
seems to be gaining in popularity. Indeed, the Rainbow Flag reminds us that
ours is a diverse community - composed of people with a variety of
individual tastes of which we should all be proud.
Sources used for this article were found at Quatrefoil Library in St. Paul,
and include: "Vexed by Rainbows", by Paul Zomcheck, in "Bay Area Reporter"
(June 26, 1986); "Rainbow Flag" in "The Alyson Almanac" (1989); and "The
Rainbow Flag", in "Parade 90: San Francisco Gay/Lesbian Freedom Day Parade
and Celebration" (June 24, 1990)
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