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Gilbert Baker Quotes

American - Artist | June 2, 1951 - March 31, 2017

The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.

Nature Beautiful Rainbow People You

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

Beauty Power Rainbow Joy Something

A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.

Work Soul Rainbow People Design You

The reason the rainbow flag endures is because people own it. It means something to them.

Rainbow People Flag Reason Own Them

Flags are about proclaiming power... that visibility is key to our success and to our justice.

Success Power Justice Key Visibility

You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.

Live Depression Lie You Values Will

What the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us.

Rainbow People Us Our Given Thing

I came out because I fell in love. It wasn't a terrible, horrible, damn thing. I was in love with somebody, and I wanted to scream it from the rooftops.

Love Damn Out Horrible Rooftops

In 1978, when I thought of creating a flag for the gay movement, there was no other international symbol for us than the pink triangle, which the Nazis used to identify homosexuals in concentration camps. Even though the pink triangle was and still is a powerful symbol, it was very much forced upon us.

Pink Thought Powerful Gay Creating

The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.

Freedom Rainbow Flag Liberation Made

When I was young, they thought I was from outer space. I was the only gay person they probably knew, and they struggled with that. Everybody knew I was gay. They just didn't want to talk about it.

Space Thought Gay Person Young Want

Harvey Milk was a friend of mine, an important gay leader in San Francisco in the '70s, and he carried a really important message about how important it was to be visible, how important it was to come out, and that was the single most important thing we had to do.

Friend Leader Gay Important Milk

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