Gay baker honors ke requt wh homophobic msage, was worried about potential lawsu | Fox News

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• I'M GAY & I BAKE. BUT DO THAT MAKE BAKG "GAY"?
• GAY BAKER HONORS KE REQUT WH HOMOPHOBIC MSAGE, WAS WORRIED ABOUT POTENTIAL LAWSU
• 13 GAY BAKERI REFE TO MAKE TRADNAL MARRIAGE CAKE WH THE MSAGE: 'GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG'
• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• ‘THEY DON’T HAVE TO BAKE A CAKE FOR YOU’: BAKER TO HIS ‘FELLOW’ GAYS AND LBIANS
• 'ARE YOU STUPID?' GAY BAKER RIPS LGBT COMMUNY FOR FORCG CHRISTIAN BAKERS TO MAKE CAK FOR SAME-SEX WEDDGS
• GAY BAKER
• SUPREME COURT SIS WH ANTI-GAY BAKER. IT’S NOT A LOSS FOR LGBT EQUALY.
• HOW TELEVANGELIST TAMMY FAYE MSNER BEME A GAY IN
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SELF-SCRIBED AS THE “GAY BETSY ROSS,” GILBERT BAKER WAS AN AMERIN ARTIST, LGBTQ RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND THE CREATOR OF THE RABOW FLAG. A SKILLED VEXILLOGRAPHER (FLAG MAKER), HIS WORK SPANNED 30 YEARS AND BROKE TWO WORLD RERDS. BAKER’S ARTISTIC WORK HELPED FE AND SOLIDIFY THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT. HE DIED ON MARCH 31, 2017, AT THE AGE OF 65.EARLY LIFE GILBERT BAKER WAS BORN ON JUNE 2, 1951 THE TY RAL TOWN OF CHANUTE, KANSAS. HIS PARENTS WERE PROMENT MUNY CIZENS; HIS MOTHER WAS AN TOR AND HIS FATHER SERVED AS A JUDGE AND LAWYER. BAKER HAD AN OUTGOG AND IENDLY PERSONALY AS A CHILD BUT FELT OSTRACIZED BEE OF HIS GAY INTY. AFTER GRADUATG OM HIGH SCHOOL, BAKER ATTEND LLEGE FOR A YEAR BEFORE THE ARMY DRAFTED HIM. BAKER WAS STATNED SAN FRANCIS JT AS THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT WAS BEGNG TO TAKE SHAPE. AFTER SERVG A SHORT TWO-YEAR TERM, HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED AND SETTLED TO THE THRIVG ACTIVIST MUNY OF SAN FRANCIS.ACTIVISMIN THE 1970S, BAKER PARTICIPATED DRAG SHOWS AND JOED THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE, A NON-PROF LGBTQ ADVOCY GROUP WHOSE MEMBERS DRS AS NUNS TO BRG ATTENTN TO GENR AND SEXUAL TOLERANCE. AN EMERGG ACTIVIST AND PROMENT DRAG PERFORMER, BAKER JOED FORC WH {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}HARVEY MILK—THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL CALIFORNIA. BAKER BEME MILK’S RIGHT-HAND FLAG MAN, UTILIZG HIS DRAG QUEEN STUME SEWG SKILLS TO SIGN AND STCH NUMERO BANNERS PROTTG THE VIETNAM WAR AND SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTS. IN FACT, WHEN BAKER’S VERY FIRST RABOW FLAGS MA THEIR BUT, MILK STOOD BENEATH THEM. WHY DID GILBERT BAKER MAKE THE PRI FLAG? WH CREASG TERT THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT, MILK AND OTHERS JOED FORC WH BAKER TO CREATE A SYMBOL FOR THE MOVEMENT. THE GROUP FOCED THEIR EFFORTS ON CREATG A FLAG—BEE "FLAGS ARE ABOUT PROCLAIMG POWER, SO 'S VERY APPROPRIATE," BAKER SAID AN TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORK MM OF MORN ART JT AFTER THEY ACQUIRED HIS ORIGAL FLAG SIGN 2015.BAKER GOT TO WORK SIGNG A SYMBOL FOR THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT 1978. HE WANTED TO BE BETIFUL, UNIQUE AND AN UNNIABLE REPRENTATN OF THE LGBTQ MUNY. THE FIRST PRI FLAG WAS PRISED OF EIGHT LORFUL STRIP REPRENTG DIVERSY: HOT PK (SEXUALY), RED (LIFE), ORANGE (HEALG), YELLOW (SUN), GREEN (NATURE), BLUE (ART), DIGO (HARMONY) AND VLET (HUMAN SPIR). WH HELP OM VOLUNTEERS, BAKER FILLED EIGHT METAL TRASH NS WH NATURAL DY AND ANIC TTON THE ATTIC OF THE GAY COMMUNY CENTER SAN FRANCIS AND ED HIS SEWG MACHE TO STCH TOGETHER THE FIRST TWO FLAGS THAT FLEW THE SAN FRANCIS GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA ON JUNE 25, 1978. AFTER THE ASSASSATN OF MILK NOVEMBER 1978, MAND FOR THE RABOW FLAG GREATLY CREASED. BUT THE SHORTAGE (AND EXPENSE) OF HOT PK FABRIC MEANT THAT THE FLAG WAS RCED TO SEVEN STRIP, LATER TO BE RCED AGA TO SIX STRIP (RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE AND VLET) TO ACUNT FOR SYMMETRY IF THE FLAG MT BE SPL HALF DURG PARAS AND FTIVALS. THE CURRENT SIX-STRIPED RABOW PRI FLAG SYMBOLIZ THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBTQ MUNY AND IS DISPLAYED GLOBALLY AS AN EMBLEM OF LGBTQ SUPPORT.MORE RABOW FLAGS AND ARTWORKBAKER NTUED TO PROMOTE THE RABOW FLAG AS AN ARTIST AT PARAMOUNT FLAG COMPANY, WHICH HE CREDS WH HELPG BRG TERNATNAL ATTENTN TO THE RABOW FLAG THROUGH S MASS PRODUCTN. THROUGHOUT THE 1980S, BAKER BEME A PROMENT ARTIST FOR LOL CIVIC, STATE AND NATNAL EVENTS, CLUDG THE 1984 DEMOCRATIC NATNAL CONVENTN. HE ALSO SIGNED FLAGS FOR SEVERAL WORLD LEARS CLUDG THE PREMIER OF CHA, THE KG OF SPA AND THE PRINTS OF FRANCE AND VENEZUELA, AMONG OTHERS. ONE OF BAKER’S 1992 RABOW SILKSCREENS EVEN HUNG THE WT WG OFFICE PLEX OF THE WHE HOE DURG BILL CLTON’S PRINCY. BAKER SHARED HIS RABOW FLAG TEXTIL, PHOTOGRAPHS, OIL PATGS AND OTHER ARTWORK WH DIENC AROUND THE WORLD CLUDG AT WORLD PRI ROME (2000), AT THE NEW YORK GAY COMMUNY CENTER (2002), AT THE SAN FRANCIS PUBLIC LIBRARY (2003) AND AT THE SAN FRANCIS LGBT COMMUNY CENTER (2003). HIS ORIGAL FLAG SIGN HAS BEEN ACQUIRED FOR THE PRTIG MOMA'S SIGN LLECTN NEW YORK CY.RERD-BREAKG RABOW FLAGSIN 1994, BAKER WAS MISSNED TO SIGN A E LONG (30-FEET-WI) RABOW FLAG TO BE RRIED BY 10,000 PEOPLE A NEW YORK CY PARA HONORG THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL UPRISG. IN 2003, TO MEMORATE THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FLAG SELF, BAKER AGA CREATED A GIANT RABOW PRI FLAG. THIS TIME, THE E-AND-A-QUARTER-LONG FLAG THAT STRETCHED SEA TO SEA OM THE GULF OF MEXI TO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN KEY WT EMPLOYED THE ORIGAL EIGHT LORS. FOLLOWG BOTH OCSNS, GUNS WORLD RERD’S REGNIZED THEM AS THE WORLD’S LARGT FLAGS TO DATE. THE GIANT FLAGS WERE CUT UP AND DISSEMATED TO MORE THAN A HUNDRED CI WORLDWI.DEATH AND TRIBUTIN ADDN TO VELOPG THE TERNATNALLY REGNIZED SYMBOL OF LGBTQ PRI, BAKER CREATED ARTWORK, SAYS, ARTICL AND SPEECH ABOUT THE RABOW FLAG. HIS FLAGS WERE NEVER TRAMARKED; HE CHOSE TO SEE THE RABOW FLAG AS HIS GIFT TO THE WORLD. HE EVEN RETURNED TO SAN FRANCIS TO RECREATE THE BANNERS AND FLAGS HE ORIGALLY MA THE 1970S TO BRG THENTICY TO THE AMY AWARD WNG FEATURE FILM MILK (2008) STARRG SEAN PENN. AN ARTIST UNTIL THE END, JT BEFORE HIS ATH, HE CREATED 39 NE-LOR FLAGS WHICH CLUD "THE EIGHT ORIGAL LORS, PL LAVENR TO REPRENT DIVERSY ORR TO MEMORATE THE 39TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST RABOW FLAG," SO STATED HIS OBUARY THE NEW YORK TIM. ON MARCH 31, 2017, BAKER DIED OM HYPERTENSIVE AND ATHEROSCLEROTIC RDVASCULAR DISEASE HIS NEW YORK CY HOME AT AGE 65. HIS LIFE IS CELEBRATED THE DOCUMENTARY, RABOW PRI (2003), AND HIS ORIGAL SEWG MACHE ED TO CREATE THE FIRST FLAG IS ON DISPLAY AT THE GLBT HISTORIL SOCIETY SAN {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
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I'M GAY & I BAKE. BUT DO THAT MAKE BAKG "GAY"?

A gay baker Michigan is speakg out after she received a requt for a ctom ke wh a homophobic msage.

Anrson looked at the orr, which had the word “Pri” all ps, she realized ntaed a homophobic msage. "I’d like you to wre on the ke, icg, 'Homosexual acts are gravely evil. While there are still a lot of rounds lefts the petn, queer fans of GBBO will certaly be rootg for the LGBTQ+ nttants to do well on the show and potentially even w season through to see pictur of Jam Dewar, Janz Domagala, and Nelsandro Farmhoe - and make sure to watch them on The Great Brish Bake pictur by @the_big_gay_baker, @janzbak, and @sandrosbak on Instagram.

| (Photo: Rters/David McNew)Dpe anti-discrimatn laws many stat that require Christian bakery owners to bake k for same-sex weddgs, 13 LGBT and gay-owned bakeri objected to one man's requt when he asked if they'd make a pro-tradnal marriage ke that would read "gay marriage is wrong.

GAY BAKER HONORS KE REQUT WH HOMOPHOBIC MSAGE, WAS WORRIED ABOUT POTENTIAL LAWSU

Shoebat set off on a vio experiment where he lled 13 bakeri, which are all eher known as gay-owned bakeri or bakeri that strongly support gay marriage, and told them that he was hostg a pro-tradnal marriage celebratn and that he need a ke that says "gay marriage is wrong. "Shoebat even lled a gay okie shop lled Hot Cookie San Francis and asked if they would make him a pizza-sized okie wh "gay marriage is wrong" wrten on . After she told Shoebat that the bakery would not make the okie, Shoebat told her that the bakery mt not stand for equaly if they're refg to make a okie for a Christian who believ homosexualy is wrong.

"Shoebat rpond by tellg her that although Christian bakers believe that gay marriage is morally wrong, they are still forced to make k for the same-sex weddgs.

"All of the homosexual activists California are workg to force Christian bs California to acquice to homosexual opn and thgs that they don't agree wh, " Shoebat asserted. "Technilly, you are discrimatg agast people like me, when you refe to make a ke that says 'gay marriage is wrong.

13 GAY BAKERI REFE TO MAKE TRADNAL MARRIAGE CAKE WH THE MSAGE: 'GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG'

Although every time Shoebat was nied and tried to start a bate about why the bakery was not standg for equaly, most of the reprentativ jt hung up on his poted ethil majory of short rpons that Shoebat recevied om bakery workers noted that his requt went agast their "belief" gay Christian bs owners have felt the stly impact of vlatg their state's anti-discrimatn laws after they nied service based on their biblil "belief" the tradnal fn of marriage, which stat that marriage is only between one man and one woman. Image source, RtersImage ptn, Jack Phillips has temporarily stopped makg weddg kThe US Supreme Court has led favour of a baker Colorado who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay Colorado state urt had found that baker Jack Phillips' cisn to turn away David Mulls and Charlie Craig 2012 was unlawful the Supreme Court led on Monday a 7-2 vote that that cisn had vlated Mr Phillips' rights. The nservative Christian ced his relig beliefs refg rights groups feared a lg agast the uple uld set a precent for treatg gay marriag differently om heterosexual the Supreme Court's verdict stead foc specifilly on Mr Phillips' se.

The cisn do not state that florists, photographers, or other servic n now refe to work wh gay lg three years after the Supreme Court ma same-sex marriage the law of the land s landmark Obergefell v Hodg source, Getty ImagImage ptn, David Mulls (left) and Charlie Craig wanted a weddg ke to celebrate their planned marriageWhat did Monday's lg say? Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote that while Colorado law "n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic... The Supreme Court Belfast has yet to release an opn on a lower urt lg that found the owners of a bakery discrimated agast a gay activist for refg to bake a ke wh the slogan "Support Gay Marriage" row began May 2014, when gay activist Gareth Lee placed an orr for a ke wh the gay marriage days later, the Christian-owned Ashers bakery ncelled the orr sayg "would ntradict their relig beliefs".

A self-scribed gay baker named Jse Bartholomew has e out fense of Christian bakers who cle to bake k for same-sex weddgs. “I bake weddg k for a livg, and I nnot tell you how disgted I am wh my fellow gay and lbian muny, that they would stoop so low to force someone to bake a ke for them who simply don’t agree wh them, ” Bartholomew said. You are beg a Nazi and forcg someone to bake a damn weddg ke for you when there are hundreds of other gay and lbians that would gladly have your bs.

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| (Photo: Screen Grab via YouTube)Days after was announced that Oregon bakers Aaron and Melissa Kle, owners of Sweetk by Melissa, would be fed $135, 000 for clg to make a weddg ke for a lbian uple, Jse Bartholomew, a self-intified gay baker, slammed the LGBT muny for "bullyg" and "beg a Nazi.

‘THEY DON’T HAVE TO BAKE A CAKE FOR YOU’: BAKER TO HIS ‘FELLOW’ GAYS AND LBIANS

""I nnot tell you how disgted I am wh my fellow gay and lbian muny — that they would stoop so low to force someone to bake a ke for them who simply don't agree wh them, " said Bartholomew a jt over 2-mute vio posted on his Facebook page on July 9.

'ARE YOU STUPID?' GAY BAKER RIPS LGBT COMMUNY FOR FORCG CHRISTIAN BAKERS TO MAKE CAK FOR SAME-SEX WEDDGS

"He suggted that the gay uple uld have gone to another bakery willg to take their bs and the actn they took agast Sweet Cak by Melissa was simply bullyg. "It's pla and simple: you are bullyg someone, you are forcg someone, you are beg a Nazi and forcg someone to bake a weddg ke for you when there are hundreds of other gays and lbians that would gladly have your bs. Bt Match Powered by Whepag Premium Bt Match Powered by Whepag Premium Powered by Whepag Premium Gay Lynn Baker Angleton, TX Other Addrs Pearland, TX •.

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SELF-SCRIBED AS THE “GAY BETSY ROSS,” GILBERT BAKER WAS AN AMERIN ARTIST, LGBTQ RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND THE CREATOR OF THE RABOW FLAG. A SKILLED VEXILLOGRAPHER (FLAG MAKER), HIS WORK SPANNED 30 YEARS AND BROKE TWO WORLD RERDS. BAKER’S ARTISTIC WORK HELPED FE AND SOLIDIFY THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT. HE DIED ON MARCH 31, 2017, AT THE AGE OF 65.EARLY LIFE GILBERT BAKER WAS BORN ON JUNE 2, 1951 THE TY RAL TOWN OF CHANUTE, KANSAS. HIS PARENTS WERE PROMENT MUNY CIZENS; HIS MOTHER WAS AN TOR AND HIS FATHER SERVED AS A JUDGE AND LAWYER. BAKER HAD AN OUTGOG AND IENDLY PERSONALY AS A CHILD BUT FELT OSTRACIZED BEE OF HIS GAY INTY. AFTER GRADUATG OM HIGH SCHOOL, BAKER ATTEND LLEGE FOR A YEAR BEFORE THE ARMY DRAFTED HIM. BAKER WAS STATNED SAN FRANCIS JT AS THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT WAS BEGNG TO TAKE SHAPE. AFTER SERVG A SHORT TWO-YEAR TERM, HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED AND SETTLED TO THE THRIVG ACTIVIST MUNY OF SAN FRANCIS.ACTIVISMIN THE 1970S, BAKER PARTICIPATED DRAG SHOWS AND JOED THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE, A NON-PROF LGBTQ ADVOCY GROUP WHOSE MEMBERS DRS AS NUNS TO BRG ATTENTN TO GENR AND SEXUAL TOLERANCE. AN EMERGG ACTIVIST AND PROMENT DRAG PERFORMER, BAKER JOED FORC WH {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}HARVEY MILK—THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL CALIFORNIA. BAKER BEME MILK’S RIGHT-HAND FLAG MAN, UTILIZG HIS DRAG QUEEN STUME SEWG SKILLS TO SIGN AND STCH NUMERO BANNERS PROTTG THE VIETNAM WAR AND SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTS. IN FACT, WHEN BAKER’S VERY FIRST RABOW FLAGS MA THEIR BUT, MILK STOOD BENEATH THEM. WHY DID GILBERT BAKER MAKE THE PRI FLAG? WH CREASG TERT THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT, MILK AND OTHERS JOED FORC WH BAKER TO CREATE A SYMBOL FOR THE MOVEMENT. THE GROUP FOCED THEIR EFFORTS ON CREATG A FLAG—BEE "FLAGS ARE ABOUT PROCLAIMG POWER, SO 'S VERY APPROPRIATE," BAKER SAID AN TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORK MM OF MORN ART JT AFTER THEY ACQUIRED HIS ORIGAL FLAG SIGN 2015.BAKER GOT TO WORK SIGNG A SYMBOL FOR THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT 1978. HE WANTED TO BE BETIFUL, UNIQUE AND AN UNNIABLE REPRENTATN OF THE LGBTQ MUNY. THE FIRST PRI FLAG WAS PRISED OF EIGHT LORFUL STRIP REPRENTG DIVERSY: HOT PK (SEXUALY), RED (LIFE), ORANGE (HEALG), YELLOW (SUN), GREEN (NATURE), BLUE (ART), DIGO (HARMONY) AND VLET (HUMAN SPIR). WH HELP OM VOLUNTEERS, BAKER FILLED EIGHT METAL TRASH NS WH NATURAL DY AND ANIC TTON THE ATTIC OF THE GAY COMMUNY CENTER SAN FRANCIS AND ED HIS SEWG MACHE TO STCH TOGETHER THE FIRST TWO FLAGS THAT FLEW THE SAN FRANCIS GAY FREEDOM DAY PARA ON JUNE 25, 1978. AFTER THE ASSASSATN OF MILK NOVEMBER 1978, MAND FOR THE RABOW FLAG GREATLY CREASED. BUT THE SHORTAGE (AND EXPENSE) OF HOT PK FABRIC MEANT THAT THE FLAG WAS RCED TO SEVEN STRIP, LATER TO BE RCED AGA TO SIX STRIP (RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE AND VLET) TO ACUNT FOR SYMMETRY IF THE FLAG MT BE SPL HALF DURG PARAS AND FTIVALS. THE CURRENT SIX-STRIPED RABOW PRI FLAG SYMBOLIZ THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBTQ MUNY AND IS DISPLAYED GLOBALLY AS AN EMBLEM OF LGBTQ SUPPORT.MORE RABOW FLAGS AND ARTWORKBAKER NTUED TO PROMOTE THE RABOW FLAG AS AN ARTIST AT PARAMOUNT FLAG COMPANY, WHICH HE CREDS WH HELPG BRG TERNATNAL ATTENTN TO THE RABOW FLAG THROUGH S MASS PRODUCTN. THROUGHOUT THE 1980S, BAKER BEME A PROMENT ARTIST FOR LOL CIVIC, STATE AND NATNAL EVENTS, CLUDG THE 1984 DEMOCRATIC NATNAL CONVENTN. HE ALSO SIGNED FLAGS FOR SEVERAL WORLD LEARS CLUDG THE PREMIER OF CHA, THE KG OF SPA AND THE PRINTS OF FRANCE AND VENEZUELA, AMONG OTHERS. ONE OF BAKER’S 1992 RABOW SILKSCREENS EVEN HUNG THE WT WG OFFICE PLEX OF THE WHE HOE DURG BILL CLTON’S PRINCY. BAKER SHARED HIS RABOW FLAG TEXTIL, PHOTOGRAPHS, OIL PATGS AND OTHER ARTWORK WH DIENC AROUND THE WORLD CLUDG AT WORLD PRI ROME (2000), AT THE NEW YORK GAY COMMUNY CENTER (2002), AT THE SAN FRANCIS PUBLIC LIBRARY (2003) AND AT THE SAN FRANCIS LGBT COMMUNY CENTER (2003). HIS ORIGAL FLAG SIGN HAS BEEN ACQUIRED FOR THE PRTIG MOMA'S SIGN LLECTN NEW YORK CY.RERD-BREAKG RABOW FLAGSIN 1994, BAKER WAS MISSNED TO SIGN A E LONG (30-FEET-WI) RABOW FLAG TO BE RRIED BY 10,000 PEOPLE A NEW YORK CY PARA HONORG THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL UPRISG. IN 2003, TO MEMORATE THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FLAG SELF, BAKER AGA CREATED A GIANT RABOW PRI FLAG. THIS TIME, THE E-AND-A-QUARTER-LONG FLAG THAT STRETCHED SEA TO SEA OM THE GULF OF MEXI TO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN KEY WT EMPLOYED THE ORIGAL EIGHT LORS. FOLLOWG BOTH OCSNS, GUNS WORLD RERD’S REGNIZED THEM AS THE WORLD’S LARGT FLAGS TO DATE. THE GIANT FLAGS WERE CUT UP AND DISSEMATED TO MORE THAN A HUNDRED CI WORLDWI.DEATH AND TRIBUTIN ADDN TO VELOPG THE TERNATNALLY REGNIZED SYMBOL OF LGBTQ PRI, BAKER CREATED ARTWORK, SAYS, ARTICL AND SPEECH ABOUT THE RABOW FLAG. HIS FLAGS WERE NEVER TRAMARKED; HE CHOSE TO SEE THE RABOW FLAG AS HIS GIFT TO THE WORLD. HE EVEN RETURNED TO SAN FRANCIS TO RECREATE THE BANNERS AND FLAGS HE ORIGALLY MA THE 1970S TO BRG THENTICY TO THE AMY AWARD WNG FEATURE FILM MILK (2008) STARRG SEAN PENN. AN ARTIST UNTIL THE END, JT BEFORE HIS ATH, HE CREATED 39 NE-LOR FLAGS WHICH CLUD "THE EIGHT ORIGAL LORS, PL LAVENR TO REPRENT DIVERSY ORR TO MEMORATE THE 39TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST RABOW FLAG," SO STATED HIS OBUARY THE NEW YORK TIM. ON MARCH 31, 2017, BAKER DIED OM HYPERTENSIVE AND ATHEROSCLEROTIC RDVASCULAR DISEASE HIS NEW YORK CY HOME AT AGE 65. HIS LIFE IS CELEBRATED THE DOCUMENTARY, RABOW PRI (2003), AND HIS ORIGAL SEWG MACHE ED TO CREATE THE FIRST FLAG IS ON DISPLAY AT THE GLBT HISTORIL SOCIETY SAN {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

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When speakg to Pieters, who was reverg om chemotherapy, Msner started to tear up over his parents’ reactn when he me out as gay. Pieters told CNN affiliate KABC he thought Msner was “pretty savvy” askg what she did, even though some of those qutns uld be nsired offensive today, sce her dience likely didn’t know many gay men or people wh AIDS. In a 2002 terview wh the LGBTQ outlet Metro Weekly, Msner said she was aware of the impact that episo would have wh gay viewers.

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“I was probably one of the first ever to have a gay man on my show, ” she said of the episo wh Pieters. Followg Jim Bakker’s d nvictn and the uple’s divorce, Msner grew more vol about supportg gay people as a Christian, even when the evangelil Christian muny disapproved. She assisted gay advocy groups at chary events and beiend notable gay figur like RuPl and the filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, and the pair eventually directed the 2000 documentary about Msner’s life.

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