He gave us his best and the rainbow flag will be an even more treasured keepsake of our history," posted Robert York, a senior director at healthcare lobby group the National Quality Forum. Our world is far less colourful without you, my love," tweeted filmmaker Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar for the screenplay to the 2008 biopic "Milk," starring Sean Penn as the gay politician.īaker, born in Kansas in 1951, served for two years in the army, according to his website, and was stationed him in San Francisco just as the gay liberation movement was gathering momentum. The flag includes black and brown stripes to represent marginalized LGBTQ+ communities of color, along with the colors pink, light blue and white, which are. Gilbert Baker, a San Francisco-based activist and artist best known for creating the rainbow flag representing gay rights, has died at the age of 65. Lets look back at their history and the wide variety of people - from drag queens to church representatives - who are in them. The news prompted an outpouring of tributes and expressions of grief on social media. Pride parades have been with us for decades now.
It was not until 1994 that the rainbow flag was truly established as. Designed by artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and drag queen, the rainbow Pride flag was first flown on Jfor the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade. The LGBT pride flag was invented in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay rights activist, army veteran, artist, and self-styled 'gay Betsy Ross.' Baker died in March of this year. Jones urged San Francisco friends to gather for an evening vigil under a rainbow flag in the city's Castro district. People march into New York’s Central Park during the nation’s first gay Pride parade on June 28, 1970.
He didn't reveal the cause, but the San Francisco Chronicle said the artist had died in his sleep at his home in New York late Thursday.
Though in the recent years, members of the community have modified the flag with a chevron along the hoist that features black, brown, light blue, pink, and white to represent people of color and the transgender community. Gilbert Baker gave the world the Rainbow Flag he gave me forty years of love and friendship. Who Invented the Gay Flag Written By Huffman Gles1990 Monday, November 29.