Gay (Gilbert) Alexanr Obuary - Gaston Gazette

GILBERT BAKER, GAY ACTIVIST WHO CREATED THE RABOW FLAG, DI AT 65

Mr. Baker’s emblem, which he created 1978, me to symbolize the gay rights movement. He scribed himself as the “gay Betsy Ross.” * gilbert e gay obituary *

Fredrik Persson/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagMarch 31, 2017Gilbert Baker, a self-scribed “gay Betsy Ross” who 1978 hand-dyed and stched together eight strips of vibrantly lored fabric to a rabow flag, stantly creatg an endurg ternatnal symbol of gay pri, was found ad on Friday at his home New York Cy.

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CHERYL GAY GILBERT

N. WALPOLE, N.H. – Gilbert “Gibby” Elw Gay, of North Walpole, passed away on June 9, 2022, surround by his three children who loved him arly. * gilbert e gay obituary *

Baker to create an emblem to reprent the Baker, wh help om volunteers, filled trash ns wh dye the attic of the Gay Communy Center San Francis and pieced together the first flags, unveilg them the para on June 25, 1978.

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He served as a medic and was eventually statned San Francis, where he remaed after leavg the Army Francis was then a center for the women’s rights and civil rights movements, and after a police raid 1969 at the Stonewall Inn Manhattan, a gatherg spot for gay New Yorkers, more people began g out as gay.

GILBERT GAY, 1936-2022 ??

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He created rabow flags for the recent ABC mi-seri “When We Rise, ” about the gay-rights recent weeks he had fished creatg 39 ne-lor flags — the eight origal lors, pl lavenr to reprent diversy — to memorate the 39th anniversary of the first rabow flag. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: Gilbert Baker, 65, ‘Gay Betsy Ross’ of the Rabow Flag. Cheryl Gay Gilbert, 76, entered the Savr’s merciful embrace April 22, 2022, at Harbor Hoe Hospice Bemont, TX.

GAY A. BROWN

Gilbert Gay, 1936-2022. – Gilbert “Gibby” Elw Gay, of North Walpole, passed away on June 9, 2022, surround by his three children who loved him arly.