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WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
Born Kansas 1951, Baker me out as gay to his parents one Christmas Day after he fell love. “I was the only gay person they probably knew, and they stggled wh that … I me out bee I fell love.
He beme iends wh Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person elected to office California, who urged his iend to create a symbol for gay Milk enuraged Baker to create somethg symbolic for LGBTQ+ rights. … It was necsary to have the rabow flag bee up until that we had the pk triangle om the Nazis— was the symbol that they would e [to note gay people].
"I wanted to make at [the Gay Communy Center at 330 Grove Street], wh my iends— need to have a real nnectn to nature and muny. Irong the two flags—which each measured 30 feet by 60 feet—required 10 first flags went up at the Uned Natns Plaza durg the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25, 1978. He was missned to create a flag by another gay in, polician Harvey Milk, for San Francis’s annual pri cisn to enlist Baker proved serendipo, as the ia of a flag to reprent the gay and lbian muny had occurred to him two years earlier.