American - Artist | June 2, 1951 - March 31, 2017
I was astounded nobody had thought of making a rainbow flag before because it seemed like such an obvious symbol for us.
Gilbert Baker
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When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.
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A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.
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Once I was finally liberated from my Kansas background, the first thing I did was get a sewing machine, because it's 1972, and I have to look like Mick Jagger and David Bowie every single second. Taffeta jumpsuits.
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The rainbow flag is beautiful because it's about love. The Confederate flag is ugly because it's about hate. It's pretty simple from the art level: beautiful versus ugly.
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Being gay in San Francisco is fun. Being gay in Saudi Arabia - that's a whole other matter.
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In 1978, the first flag was organic everything. It did have eight colors: the six colors of the rainbow we see today plus hot pink and turquoise. But pretty quickly on I realized that I would never be able to satisfy the demand for them by hand-dying fabric and these colors.
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Our movement is evolving. The movement to liberate our sexuality as a human right, that's an ongoing struggle.
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It's not so easy to be gay or even a woman in some places in the world, and in many countries, it's illegal to be gay. You can be put to death. It's a global struggle. A human rights struggle on a global scale.
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