The brilliantly lored banner—now on view San Francis—flew on "Gay Freedom Day" 1978
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* gay flag 1978 *
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.