Gay Guys In History
Gilbert Baker
Mr. Baker was born in 1951. He was living in San Francisco in the early 70's and became involved in the gay rights movement. He taught himself to sew and was hired at the local Paramount Flag Company. He became friends with Harvey Milk. In 1978, he was asked to design a flag that could be used in gay pride celebrations and gay rights protests. He created an rainbow flag with 8 colors. The pink color was dropped because it was too difficult to find for mass production. And indigo was later dropped to make there be an even number of stripes. And that's how we came to have the Rainbow Flag with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple on it.
Mr. Gilbert Baker, the father of the Gay Pride Rainbow Flag!
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