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- MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG
- DIGNER OF RABOW FLAG, ENDURG SYMBOL FOR GAY RIGHTS, HAS DIED
MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG
June is Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr pri month, and the rabow flag -- that inic symbol for gay pri -- is flyg om Athens to San Francis to Brazil. Enter artist Gilbert Baker, the man who first me up wh the flag's sign some 34 years ago. * creator of the gay pride rainbow *
It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag. Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials the U. S., to create a symbol of pri for the gay muny.
As he later said an terview, “Our job as gay people was to e out, to be visible, to live the tth, as I say, to get out of the lie.
DIGNER OF RABOW FLAG, ENDURG SYMBOL FOR GAY RIGHTS, HAS DIED
As the gay muny was risg, then activist Harvey Milk saw the need to create somethg that would symbolize that muny. He approached a young artist and sewer om Kansas to fulfill his msage of hope and the rt is history. * creator of the gay pride rainbow *
The first versns of the rabow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para.
The rabow flag, which has bee a universal symbol of hope for LGBTQ people around the world, first flew San Francis’s Uned Natns Plaza for Gay Pri Day, on June 25, 1978.
Gilbert Baker ed his sewg skills to create the flag, an endurg symbol of the gay rights movement, and later, of growg solidary wh LGBT . He was 65. * creator of the gay pride rainbow *
It had eight lors – two more than today’s versn – and was signed by Gilbert Baker, an openly gay artist and activist. He had been missned to sign a symbol for the LGBTQ muny by his iend Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California. Most Amerins learn about Betsy Ross, the woman creded wh creatg the US flag, but how many have heard of the legacy of Gilbert Baker, the “Gay Betsy Ross?
World-famo polil activist, signer and flag-maker Gilbert Baker (1951-2017) created the Rabow Flag 1978. Over the next four s, his creatn would bee embraced across the world as the universal symbol of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) movement. * creator of the gay pride rainbow *
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But others, like Baker, uldn’t shake the associatn wh persecutn and murr of gays, and the holot.
Baker, along wh volunteers, pieced together fabric for the first few flags ahead of a gay rights rally San Francis at the Gay Communy Center.