29. Beyond the Rainbow: Building Queer Symbologies Before & After Gilbert Baker
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
For this very first solo episode, we're bringing you a whole bunch of history at once, for everyone's quarantined entertainment! Presented live on Zoom, we revisited a presentation that Leigh originally gave at the GLBT Historical Society Museum about the history of queer symbols before and after the creation of the rainbow flag, and sharing some stories from folks who participated in a flag-making workshop! From 600 B.C. to right now, queer people have used hundreds of symbols to refer to themselves, find community, and create shared language. Learn about just some of them in this episode, and tell us your favorites! What symbols are your favorites? If you were to create a new queer symbol or flag, what would you do?
Outline
0:00 – Introduction
3:42 – Main presentation: Beyond the Rainbow
57:31 – Interviews with flag workshop participants
1:09:57 – Closing Announcements and Where to Find us Online
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, guys, gals, and non-binary pals. It's Lee here in the intro today with a little bit of |
| 0:06.9 | information about this episode that you'll be listening to and a few announcements. First off, I |
| 0:12.6 | hope that everyone's quarantine, social distancing is going okay, and that you're taking time to |
| 0:18.2 | check in with yourselves and treat yourselves and others gently |
| 0:21.1 | as we're in the middle of this crisis. Take care of one another and check in on our most vulnerable. |
| 0:27.1 | And, you know, I love to see people helping out where they can. If you have been doing really |
| 0:32.4 | interesting and kind things for folks in this crisis, please send us a message and let us know about it. |
| 0:39.5 | We'd love to share your stories. |
| 0:41.3 | Before we get into the episode today, I wanted to make a relatively big announcement. |
| 0:46.2 | If you follow us on social media, you may have seen this a few days ago, but I just wanted |
| 0:51.2 | to say it here on the pod as well. |
| 0:54.3 | Unfortunately, it is with a heavy heart that we have to announce that Gretchen is taking a step |
| 0:58.7 | back and departing from History is Gay as co-host. She's asked me to tell you all, |
| 1:04.1 | sadly, I no longer have the time or energy that History is Gay deserves. It's been fun, fam, |
| 1:09.5 | but don't worry. I'm not gone forever. I'll still be |
| 1:12.7 | helping out occasionally behind the scenes and we'll still make guest appearances. So, send your love |
| 1:19.0 | along to Gretchen. She has to depart this project. She's poured a lot of love into it. And because of this, |
| 1:25.6 | please be patient as we move through this weird transition |
| 1:29.7 | period and work towards finding another person to add to our team. We'll still be doing our best |
| 1:34.6 | to get episodes out and bring you content, but please know that for a while we'll be a one queer |
| 1:40.3 | operation. It'll just be me working on things, and this is a big show, and I can't do it by |
| 1:45.0 | myself. So, saying all that, we are actively seeking a new co-host slash producer to work with me. |
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