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“Gilbert’s presence in the world will never be forgotten,” Jerome Goldstein, a close friend, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Five years later, he returned to San Francisco to re-create the 1970s banners for the movie “Milk.” Gilbert Baker was born in Kansas in 1951. The cause of death is hypertensive disease. He was found dead at his home in New York on March 31.
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In 2003, for the 25th anniversary of the symbol, he built his largest flag yet - stretching across Key West from the Gulf of Mexico to the Florida Strait. Gilbert Baker, the creator of the rainbow flag of LGBT, who became a symbol of the movement for the rights of sexual minorities, died at the age of 65. He held exhibitions in Rome, New York and San Francisco. He did fine art silk screens on linen celebrating the flag, and worked with photographers to document it. He moved to New York in 1994 and created a mile-long rainbow flag to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, widely viewed as the start of the gay liberation movement. senator, saw them and commissioned him to design flags for her first inaugural as mayor.īaker liked to joke that he was the “gay Betsy Ross.” In 1979, Baker went to work at Paramount Flag Co.in San Francisco and created “flamboyant window displays,” according to his online biography. The six simple panels of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple would become a universal beacon of pride for gay and transgender communities. The first flags had eight color stripes, but Baker removed pink and turquoise because those fabrics were more expensive.
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Milk was assassinated five months later, along with the then-mayor, George Moscone. 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. Gilbert Baker came up with the eight-coloured banner for San Franciscos 1978 gay. 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. THE ARTIST who created the iconic LGBT rainbow flag has died aged 65.