This Colorado baker refed to put an anti-gay msage on k. Now she is facg a civil rights plat. - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• I'M GAY & I BAKE. BUT DO THAT MAKE BAKG "GAY"?
• GAY BAKER HONORS KE REQUT WH HOMOPHOBIC MSAGE, WAS WORRIED ABOUT POTENTIAL LAWSU
• IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE
• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• GAY A BAKER 1925 - 1996
• 13 GAY BAKERI REFE TO MAKE TRADNAL MARRIAGE CAKE WH THE MSAGE: 'GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG'
• THE ‘GAY KE’ FIGHT: WHY THE BAKERS HAD A RIGHT TO REFE THIS ORR
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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. The se began when a same-sex uple Colorado — Charlie Craig and Dave Mulls — filed a plat wh the state civil-rights missn after baker Jack Phillips told them that he did not sign ctom k for gay upl.

Kennedy said is "unexceptnal" that Colorado law "n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic on the same terms and ndns that are offered to other members of the public, " but at the same time, "the law mt be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign.

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

Moreover, the state law at the time afford storekeepers some latu to cle creatg specific msag they nsired offensive, and the Colorado missn had prevly allowed three different bakers to refe to put an anti-gay msage on a ke. " Throughout the opn, Kennedy seemed to be balancg the ledger, tryg not to disturb public acmodatn laws like the one Colorado and reeratg that gay people may "not be treated as outsts. " While a member of the clergy clearly nnot be forced to nduct a weddg ceremony for a same-sex uple, vlatn of his relig views, Kennedy said, Colorado "n protect gay persons, jt as n protect other class of dividuals.

He closed by sayg that "the oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market. They argued that as the Colorado missn had prevly allowed bakers to refe to rate k wh anti-gay signs, the missn's cisn to le agast Phillips was herently nsistent and discrimated agast some relig groups.

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.

IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE

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?

US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB

Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote that while Colorado law "n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic... A siar 'gay ke' row is ongog Northern Ireland. 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".

GAY A BAKER 1925 - 1996

Reh this page to see var historil events that occurred durg Gay's lifetime. In 1925, the year that Gay A Baker was born, on November 28th, rad statn WSM broadst the Grand Ole Opry for the first time.

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

In 1996, the year of Gay A Baker's passg, on April 3rd, Theodore Kaczynski (nicknamed the Unabomber) was arrted.

| (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. 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 .

THE ‘GAY KE’ FIGHT: WHY THE BAKERS HAD A RIGHT TO REFE THIS ORR

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. 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.

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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

"I am a man who believ gay marriage is wrong. And the story of how the icg on that ke beme, bizarrely, an exhib the ntemporary culture 2014 Gareth Lee, an LGBT activist, asked Ashers bakery Belfast to make a ke rated wh imag of the Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie, together wh the slogan: “Support gay marriage”.

Photograph: Charl McQuillan/Getty ImagHad Ashers refed to serve Lee bee he was gay, or bee of his support for same-sex marriage, then I n see why would be guilty of discrimatn. Other Christians prosecuted for preachg hatred clu Michael Overd, nvicted at Bristol crown urt of quotg homophobic passag om the Bible, and Shawn Hol, fed for preachg on the streets of Glasgow that gays served the “wrath of God” that Christians themselv are slow to censor. Siarly, Christian B&B owners should not be able to turn away gays, even if they believe that homosexualy is a treatment, however, is not the same as forcg someone to exprs particular views.

Self-scribed as the “gay Betsy Ross, ” Gilbert Baker was an Amerin artist, LGBTQ rights activist and the creator of the rabow flag. Baker had an outgog and iendly personaly as a child but felt ostracized bee of his gay inty.

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Baker was statned San Francis jt as the gay liberatn movement was begng to take shape. An emergg activist and proment drag performer, Baker joed forc wh 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.

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 got to work signg a symbol for the gay liberatn movement 1978. 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.

THE BAKER, THE GAY COUPLE AND THE WEDDG CAKE

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). Though the televangelist is remembered for all of those thgs and more (cludg her first hband, Jim Bakker, gettg nvicted for dg churchgoers out of more than $150 ln), what endur is the seemgly scere love she had for her gay fans. But was groundbreakg 1985, when she terviewed a gay man livg wh AIDS and showed him passn (amid some very personal qutns about her terviewee’s sex life).

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It was a parture om the norm to hear a person her posn – half of an evangelil Christian uple – support gay people, pecially as evangelism beme creasgly nservative. “I thk I have a lot mon wh the gay populatn bee they’ve been ma fun of and put down and misunrstood and have really had a rough row to hoe life, ” she told the South Florida Sun-Sentel 2002, ahead of a live show she performed for primarily gay dienc.

In both films, Msner’s support for gay people and people diagnosed wh AIDS is amplified – and by dog so, both films attempt to reem her memory.

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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. “I was probably one of the first ever to have a gay man on my show, ” she said of the episo wh Pieters.

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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. That documentary was largely sympathetic toward Msner and highlighted her populary among gay fans – and helped rhape the image of Msner om a disgraced televangelist to a pillar of acceptg Christiany.