Name: Flying colors: The history of Pride | Forever Ago: History Podcast for Kids
Uploaded: 2024-08-20T17:49:00.000Z
Duration: 10 min 27 s
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I'm Joy Dolo, and my co-host today is Lilika from Santa Barbara.

Our neighborhood is throwing a parade for everyone to enjoy.

There's floats and music and families and dancing.

Pride is a celebration of people who are queer.

Queer is a word that's often used to describe people who are gay or lesbian, which means they're attracted to people with the same gender as them.

Or it can be someone who is transgender, which means that person's gender is different from the sex they were born with.

Lilika, you wrote to us with the great idea to do an episode about the Pride flag.

Well, I'm really interested in LGBTQIA plus history and especially, like, how the different flags are made, and I really love all the different designs of the flag because I'm always curious about them.

Do you do anything special to celebrate Pride month?

Target has, like, a big Pride section usually, so my mom usually just, like, goes through and just buys all of the Pride stuff.

So what is the last Pride item you bought?

A couple of weeks ago, I got a bunch of stickers.

There was a Pride table at an event I was at, and they had those buttons that you kind of stick on your shirt or whatever, those, like, one buttons.

I got two of them, and I made them into earrings.

Not to the extent of my knowledge, at least.

Where do you see the Pride flag in your life?

Um, there are a couple of, like, signs and Pride flags at various houses, kind of, like, on our street and the streets around us.

Do you, does it make you feel anything when you see it?

Um, it makes me feel seen, and it makes me feel like the world is improving.

It also makes me proud, too, to, like, know that, you know, flags represent so many things in so many cultures, and to know that there's representation out there right now for LGBTQIA people, it's awesome that we can just wave our flag in front of our houses or schools or a little bumper sticker on our car.

I can't wait to see our finished Pride Pride float in action.

I'd be lying if I didn't say I'm super proud of this float.

But, dang, all the floats this year are really next level.

It's the Marty's Discount Tire Gay Men's Choir.

Their motto is, we'll sing the harmonies and save you car monies.

Bubble Trouble Laundromat is here this year.

Lucia's Taqueria tried out a bean cannon.

I was picking pintos out of my hair for weeks.

It feels like everyone is here celebrating.

Celebrating the freedom to be who you are and love who you love.

And show up and be seen as your whole self.

And all over this parade, on the floats, on shirts hanging from buildings, are rainbow flags.

But the rainbow flag wasn't always part of Pride celebrations.

For nearly the first 10 years of Pride, that flag didn't even exist.

It was designed to give queer people something to rally around.

A symbol to let them know they were part of a community.

Of course, queer people have always been a part of all of our communities.

In fact, throughout history, you can find examples of different cultures recognizing and celebrating queerness.

Many indigenous cultures in the Americas recognize and honor two-spirit individuals, which sometimes means people who have both masculine and feminine qualities, or people who are attracted to people with the same gender as them.

And during the Han Dynasty in China, which began over 2,000 years ago, ten emperors in a row partnered with both men and women.

In many countries, especially in the last several hundred years, it wasn't safe for people to show their queerness openly.

Your parents would take you to school in one of those big boats of a car.

Oh yeah, you might hear some brand new music on the radio called rock and roll.

And you would not buckle your seatbelt, because there weren't any back then.

Frozen dinners served in trays with little dividers were all the rage.

Your mom would take it out of the freezer, pop it in the oven, not the microwave, because those weren't common.

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