This motif has often been used, as was the case of the two characters in a Vancouver 'gay pride parade,' right. Second row left, an undefined man/woman wears a top with the rainbow colors. From then on the rainbow became a universally recognized representation of homosexuals.īelow, first row right, in a New York City parade in 2003, they display an enormous rainbow flag. It was the first time they used the symbol. Around 20 years before the Paris World Youth Day, the rainbow colors were chosen by the homosexuals.īelow ( first row, left), you see a picture of the 'gay and lesbian' flag waving near the cupola of San Francisco Civic Center in 1978. Now then, for a long time these colors had been known as a symbol of the homosexual movement. That is, vestments with the rainbow colors.
Cardinals and Bishops wearing vestments with the rainbow colors of the homosexual movement, World Youth Day, Paris 1997 Īt World Youth Day 1997 in Paris, a fashionable French couturier was hired to design the vestments the Cardinals and Bishops would wear at those ceremonies.
