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Gilbert Baker added a 9th stripe shortly before his death, with the new stripe representing diversity. He added this stripe in reaction to the 2016 US election. It’s unfortunately not as well known as the 8 and 6 striped versions.

Here’s an image of him sewing together the 9 striped rainbow flag.

seeing raglan james in his body and not immediately recognizing it and checking himself out like “who’s that handsome piece of- wait a minute that’s me”

when jesse grabs him while he’s performing because she’s having some kind of spiritual/philosophical meltdown and he’s just like ‘woah a groupie…Fucking Sweet’ and kisses her

passively learning to read using Vampire Brain Powers but not realizing he could read for…who fucking knows how long

running face-first into a closed window

occupying a human body for the first time in 200 years and immediately tripping over a rug and then being like “holy shit that could kill someone”

also when he’s wandering around as a human, seeing david and getting so distracted by the prospect of sleeping with him that he forgets about the plot of the book and david has to remind him that they’re supposed to be catching the bad guy

Ya’ll don’t have any idea how fucking brave and needed these plot lines were.

This was before Ellen came out.

This was before civil unions.

This was before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

This was when your ass could be fired, blacklisted, and shunned with no legal protections for even being hinted at being gay.