Jun 19
The first official rainbow Pride flag makes a historic journey overseas.
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The first official rainbow Pride flag makes a historic journey overseas.
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[W]hat the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us. I can go to another country, and if I see a rainbow flag I feel like that’s someone who is a kindred spirit or [that it’s] a safe place to go. It’s sort of a language, and it’s also proclaiming power.
Gilbert Baker quoted in an article by Elaine McGlone in law Society of Scotland. Flying the colours of pride.
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“What I liked about the rainbow is that it fits all of us. It’s all the colors. It represents all the genders. It represents all the races. It’s the rainbow of humanity.” — Gilbert Baker
Gilbert Baker really ate when thinking of a rainbow for the symbol of the lgbt community. Like, yeah, Gilbert. You got it. That's exactly it.
Lauren Shepard of Parsons was on hand at the Statehouse to watch Kelly sign. She had just graduated from Pittsburg State University with a master’s degree. According to her, efforts to honor Baker locally ran into static. “Ultimately, the town, the city commission ended up tabling the idea, so we pivoted and got together and started a Gilbert Baker Memorial Scholarship through the Parsons High School, where he graduated,” she told me. “So now every year we select a student that’s active in their OAQ, which is like a gay-straight alliance, it’s a student organization there at the high school.”
Baker created an icon that has spread across the globe and into the hearts of those who care for their gay neighbors: the rainbow flag.
No one on hand missed the broader implications. Baker had turned his back on his Kansas background, living in San Francisco and New York City. He had finally agreed to return to Parsons, Janovy writes, for a key to the city and film festival in 2017. A month before the events, Baker died at the too-young age of 65. “It allows us to recognize one of our own who created an emblem that allows us to recognize all of LGBTQ across the country and across the world,” said Rachel Reed of Lawrence. “And it’s very, very important.”
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The Pride flag is cloth, color, memory, protest, grief, sex, survival, and public refusal stitched into one of the most recognizable symbols on earth. It hangs from balconies, courthouse steps, classrooms, bars, churches, health clinics, library windows, backpacks, protest signs, and sometimes from the trembling hands of people who are still learning how to say, “This is me.” That is why this…
Gilbert Baker and the first pride flag displayed at Pride in 1978. I met him at the San Francisco Flag Store, back in the day.
found in the glbt historical society's online archives
