On the city’s Gay Freedom Day Parade in 1978, Milk rode under the first rainbow flags sewn by Baker, and dyed by him and Jones. Milk, the first openly gay San Francisco supervisor, urged Baker to come up with a symbol of hope, according to Baker’s online bio. “Gilbert’s idea was to create something that reflects the diversity of the LGBT community,” Jones said. In the mid-1970s, gay activists in the Castro District of San Francisco - including Jones, Baker and Harvey Milk - were trying to come up with a symbol for their movement.īaker didn’t like two symbols they were using: The Greek letter lambda seemed too obscure, and the pink triangle that the Nazis had forced gay prisoners in their concentration camps to wear was too dark. “He was still a hippie at heart, part of the psychedelic generation.” He said Baker, his best friend for 45 years, was a creative, big-hearted force of nature.
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