We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that. — Gilbert Baker Beauty Copy Share Image
Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say -… — Gilbert Baker Gay Copy Share Image
Anita Bryant is an important figure in gay history because she enraged a generation of people who got active. — Gilbert Baker Copy Share Image
I was afraid my family would lock me up and give me electroshock. I was a screaming queen. — Gilbert Baker Family Copy Share Image
Being gay in San Francisco is fun. Being gay in Saudi Arabia - that's a whole other matter. — Gilbert Baker Arabia Copy Share Image
Our movement is evolving. The movement to liberate our sexuality as a human right, that's an ongoing struggle. — Gilbert Baker Human Copy Share Image
I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a… — Gilbert Baker Flag Copy Share Image
It's not so easy to be gay or even a woman in some places in the world, and in many countries, it's… — Gilbert Baker Death Copy Share Image
I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag, knowing that it's a safe place where I can… — Gilbert Baker Around the world Copy Share Image
I think the Rainbow Flag will survive forever, primarily because it's the perfect flag, regardless of whatever political meaning it may have… — Gilbert Baker Flag Copy Share Image
I came out because I fell in love. It wasn't a terrible, horrible, damn thing. I was in love with somebody, and… — Gilbert Baker Copy Share Image
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… — Gilbert Baker Art Copy Share Image
A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function. — Gilbert Baker Copy Share Image
I was astounded nobody had thought of making a rainbow flag before because it seemed like such an obvious symbol for us. — Gilbert Baker Astounded Copy Share Image
A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A… — Gilbert Baker Design Copy Share Image
In 1978, the first flag was organic everything. It did have eight colors: the six colors of the rainbow we see today… — Gilbert Baker Colors Copy Share Image
Harvey Milk was a friend of mine, an important gay leader in San Francisco in the '70s, and he carried a really… — Gilbert Baker Copy Share Image
In 1978, when I thought of creating a flag for the gay movement, there was no other international symbol for us than… — Gilbert Baker Concentration camp Copy Share Image
The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all… — Gilbert Baker Beautiful Copy Share Image
The reason the rainbow flag endures is because people own it. It means something to them. — Gilbert Baker Flag Copy Share Image
Flags say something. You put a rainbow flag on your windshield, and you're saying something. — Gilbert Baker Flag Copy Share Image
Flags are about proclaiming power... that visibility is key to our success and to our justice. — Gilbert Baker Flag Copy Share Image
That's really how I ended up making the first flag - I was the guy who could sew it. — Gilbert Baker Copy Share Image
My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship. — Gilbert Baker Copy Share Image
When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished. — Gilbert Baker Guilt Copy Share Image
The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves. — Gilbert Baker Flag Copy Share Image
You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will… — Gilbert Baker Lie Copy Share Image
Anita Bryant had the effect of galvanizing the whole gay movement. She was somebody whom everybody could hate. She was easy to… — Gilbert Baker Copy Share Image
Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history -… — Gilbert Baker Art Copy Share Image
Once I was finally liberated from my Kansas background, the first thing I did was get a sewing machine, because it's 1972,… — Gilbert Baker Computers Copy Share Image
When I was young, they thought I was from outer space. I was the only gay person they probably knew, and they… — Gilbert Baker Gay Copy Share Image
