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Gilbert Baker
American
Artist
Born:
Jun 2
,
1951
Died:
Mar 31
,
2017
Because
Flag
Gay
Love
People
You
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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.
Gilbert Baker
Beautiful
Nature
You
People
Right Place
Our
Sexuality
See
Colors
Part
Because
Fit
Place
Races
Us
Ages
Really
Even
Right
Rainbow
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.
Gilbert Baker
Depression
You
Lie
Will
Values
Live
Living
Mess
Up
Send
Warp
Your
What the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us.
Gilbert Baker
People
Our
Our People
Given
Us
Connects
Thing
Rainbow
A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits.
Gilbert Baker
Sky
Something
Fits
Flag
Rainbow
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.
Gilbert Baker
Love
Somebody
Damn
Damn Thing
Out
Horrible
Fell
Terrible
Because
Came
Scream
Wanted
Rooftops
Thing
The reason the rainbow flag endures is because people own it. It means something to them.
Gilbert Baker
People
Own
Something
Because
Flag
Endures
Them
Means
Reason
Rainbow
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.
Gilbert Baker
Art
History
Science
Word
Big
Understanding
High
Academic
Making
Very
Flag
Flags
Really
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.
Gilbert Baker
Gay
Leader
Important
Single
Mine
Francisco
Visible
Carried
Harvey
Out
About
Had
He
Come
Most
Message
Most Important Thing
Important Message
How
Important Thing
Friend
San
San Francisco
Really
Milk
Thing
My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.
Gilbert Baker
Time
Relationship
Speak
Long
Parents
Long Time
Rebuild
Took
Years
That's really how I ended up making the first flag - I was the guy who could sew it.
Gilbert Baker
First
Sew
Guy
Could
How
Making
Up
Ended
Flag
Really
Who
When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.
Gilbert Baker
Love
Me
Guilt
Carried
Vanished
Shame
Fell
Years
Suddenly
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.
Gilbert Baker
First
Single
Every
Once
Finally
Liberated
Background
Machine
Sewing
David
David Bowie
Like
Look
Bowie
First Thing
Because
Get
Did
Mick Jagger
Jagger
The First Thing
Kansas
Thing
Second
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.
Gilbert Baker
Love
Beautiful
Art
Hate
Simple
Ugly
Confederate
Pretty
About
Because
Versus
Flag
Level
Rainbow
Our movement is evolving. The movement to liberate our sexuality as a human right, that's an ongoing struggle.
Gilbert Baker
Struggle
Liberate
Our
Evolving
Sexuality
Ongoing
Human
Movement
Human Right
Right
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