Flying colors: The story of the rainbow Pride flag

Forever Ago

American Public Media

Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.4 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week, Joy and co-host Lilike are at a Pride celebration! These celebrations have taken place since 1969, but the rainbow flag is a more recent invention! Tag along to check out all the amazing parade floats, learn about the queer community’s fight for civil rights, and discover how the Pride flag was first created! Plus, a new game of First Things First featuring some of our favorite emojis!

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0:00.0	And I'll just throw this over here and come around the bottom with this.
0:09.0	Oh, that's some extra sparkles here.
0:12.0	Wow, Troy, this looks amazing.
0:16.0	Thanks, Lillica.
0:17.0	What is it?
0:18.0	Well, it's Pride Month and this is the float I'm making for the Pride parade.
0:25.0	Okay, but why is it covered with giant paper mache alliance?
0:30.0	Well, the zoo is my sponsor.
0:32.0	And the theme I came up with is so clever.
0:36.0	Oh, how clever is it?
0:39.0	It's so clever that the retainers are going to fall right out of the mouths of the neighboring float sponsored by Goldbricine Orthodontics.
0:47.0	Okay, get this.
0:51.0	Pride is a month-long celebration that happens every June to celebrate our queer friends' relatives and neighbors, right?
0:58.0	But a pack of lions is also called a pride.
1:02.0	So my float is a pride celebrating pride.
1:05.0	It's a pride ride.
1:07.0	Awesome, right?
1:10.0	Oh, that's what the lions look like they're partying.
1:14.0	I love it.
1:15.0	Yeah, but it doesn't stop there.
1:17.0	I'm going all in on my double-pride theme.
1:20.0	I'm wearing little rainbow cat ears.
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