Koko - future King of United Kingdom

My mailbox is full of e-mails in which people ask me to tell them about history of PRIDE flag and answer them to some complex questions. Here some typical questions.

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Koko, it's a cover of Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon", which was released in the 1973. How it was possible? In 1973 homosexuality was considered as a menthal disorder. And I've never heard than members of Pink Ployd were gays.

Maybe they supported homosexual people, puting a pride flag on the album's cover?

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Dear Koko, could you, please explain me, why rock group Deep Purple used a large Gay Pride Rainbow at California Jam (April 6th 1974) ?

I am a fan of Deep Purple and I know that members of this group are not gays.

Please, explain me it.

Regards,  Julien.

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Koko. Recently I visited St.Petersburg in Russia. It was fantastic! Drunk bears with samovars of vodka and balalaikas in the street!  Must see it!

Near the Consulate General of the USA there is a drugstore with a gay rainbow on it's sign. I was very surpriced, "Drugstore for gays and lesbians!".


But in the drugstore they told me that it's a drugstore for normal people, not for homosexuals.  I asked them why on the drugstore's sign there is a gay rainbow? And they asnwered me that they hear about 'gay rainbow' for the very first time.

How you can explain it?

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Okay, I'll answer. The fan of Pink Floyd was right. In 1973 homosexuality was considered as a menthal disorder. And only in 1994 American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from "the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (thanks to lesbo-feminist and liberal activists).

Fan of Deep Purple :-).  Attention! Test for lesbians! What is Deep Purple according to lesbian slang? If you don't know it, you are not 100% lesbian. Right answer is here.

And now about Gay Pride Flag. For the very first time it was used by homosexuals in 1978 at "San Francisco's Gay Freedom Celebration".  It was idea of Gilbert Baker to use it. Unfortunately we see that idea to use rainbow was not original, in other words ... Gilbert could not design or invent anything new. Sad to tell, but Gay Pride Flag was stolen from rock-music.

Sometimes people try to explain what different colours at gay flag mean. Many different explanations, and there is not one standard. Sometimes lesbians instead of purple stripe use black as a symbol of "masculinity". Sometimes gays do the same (black instead of purple) as a symbol of leather. Sometimes people add 7th (black) stripe under purple stripe as a symbol of gays who died of AIDS, and so on. So if you have an interesting idea, you can modify Gay Pride Flag.