American - Artist | June 2, 1951 - March 31, 2017
Flags say something. You put a rainbow flag on your windshield, and you're saying something.
Gilbert Baker
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A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits.
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I think the Rainbow Flag will survive forever, primarily because it's the perfect flag, regardless of whatever political meaning it may have or evolve to.
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Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history - the academic word for flag making and heraldry.
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Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say - to get out of the lie.
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I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will. And flags are about proclaiming power, so it's very appropriate.
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Anita Bryant is an important figure in gay history because she enraged a generation of people who got active.
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Anita Bryant had the effect of galvanizing the whole gay movement. She was somebody whom everybody could hate. She was easy to hate.
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I was afraid my family would lock me up and give me electroshock. I was a screaming queen.
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My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.
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That's really how I ended up making the first flag - I was the guy who could sew it.
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I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag, knowing that it's a safe place where I can be myself.
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