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.
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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.
DIGNER OF RABOW FLAG, ENDURG SYMBOL FOR GAY RIGHTS, HAS DIED
* creator of the gay pride rainbow *
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. 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.
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.
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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 *
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. For people regns Rsia, Uganda, and 72 other untri where gay marriage is illegal fight for equal rights, the rabow flag is ed as a symbol of hope.
Today, Baker’s symbol is everythg om a uni emoji to a sticker seen the wdows of gay-iendly bs around the he died 2017, Baker’s personal webse said he ma the flags and banners for gay rights and anti-war protts, often at the requt of Harvey Milk, who ro unr one of Baker’s rabow banners on San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para June 1978 — the same year Gilbert created the NBC OUT ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAMTim FzsimonsTim Fzsimons is a reporter for NBC News.
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 *
YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP / Getty ImagA huge rabow flag is unfold durg the annual gay pri para Sao Plo, Brazil, June 10, 2012. About 3 ln people were expected to take part the para unr the 2012 theme "Homophobia has a cure. 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.
After beg discharged om the Army durg the Vietman War, Baker settled San Francis, where he tght himself to sew and soon began craftg banners for gay march and events, CBS Chigo reports. He eventually beiend Harvey Milk, the cy’s first openly gay elected official.
Given Baker’s fluential role the gay muny, 1978 the San Francis Gay and Lbian Pri Para missned him to sign a new symbol that uld be ed year after year. “Let’s remember that 80 untri ’s still illegal to be gay and ten untri or so ’s a ath penalty, ” he told CBS. MORE: Why Asia’s Gays are Startg to W Acceptance.