gay pride parade chicago.. multicolured beaded necklaces?
Hi,
I was visiting downtown Chicago yesterday and while on the train back home in the evening saw a lot of people especially girls wearing multicoloured beaded necklaces ..
What do those necklaces signify? was that a part of any theme for the parade?
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The rainbow is a symbol of gay pride.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(gay_mov...
The design may have been influenced by the gay pride flag, with multicolored stripes used by various left-wing causes and organizations in the San Francisco area in the 1960s. The Rainbow Flag originally had eight stripes (from top to bottom):
hot pink for sex,
red for life,
orange for healing,
yellow for sun,
green for serenity with nature,
turquoise for art,
indigo for harmony, and
violet for spirit.
Handmade versions of this flag were flown in the 1978 Gay Freedom Day Parade.
Steve Kramer, 24 April 1998
Use of the rainbow flag by the gay community began in 1978 when it first appeared in the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade. Borrowing symbolism from the hippie movement and black civil rights groups, San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag in response to a need for a symbol that could be used year after year. Baker and thirty volunteers hand-stitched and hand-dyed two huge prototype flags for the parade. The flags had eight stripes, each color representing a component of the community.
Marcus Schmöger, 26 Aug 2001,
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They are called Pride necklaces, I personally sell them at Pride festivals in the Midwest and at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
theyre just gay pride necklaces....I got a few of those when I went to the parade last year....they throw them from the parade floats....
Probably similar to rainbow symbol just signifying they are gay.