Quotes by Gilbert Baker - Page 1

A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits.
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Rainbow
Sky
Fits
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What the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us.
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Given
Rainbow
Connects
Our People
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The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.
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Liberation
Rainbow
Flag
Symbol
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That's really how I ended up making the first flag - I was the guy who could sew it.
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Ended
Flag
Sew
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We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
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Beauty
Power
Joy
Needed
Rainbow
Did
Express
Something
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The reason the rainbow flag endures is because people own it. It means something to them.
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Rainbow
Endures
Flag
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I was afraid my family would lock me up and give me electroshock. I was a screaming queen.
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Give Me
Queen
Lock
Screaming
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Being gay in San Francisco is fun. Being gay in Saudi Arabia - that's a whole other matter.
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Arabia
San Francisco
Saudi Arabia
Francisco
San
Saudi
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When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.
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Guilt
Shame
Carried
Vanished
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Flags say something. You put a rainbow flag on your windshield, and you're saying something.
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Rainbow
Flag
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My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.
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Time Relationship Long
Rebuild
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Flags are about proclaiming power... that visibility is key to our success and to our justice.
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Flags
Proclaiming
Visibility
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Anita Bryant is an important figure in gay history because she enraged a generation of people who got active.
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Active
Bryant
Enraged
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Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say - to get out of the lie.
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Visible
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Our movement is evolving. The movement to liberate our sexuality as a human right, that's an ongoing struggle.
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Ongoing
Sexuality
Evolving
Human Right
Liberate
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A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.
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Function
Tacky
Organizations
Flag
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You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
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Depression
Mess
Values
Warp
Lie
Send
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I was astounded nobody had thought of making a rainbow flag before because it seemed like such an obvious symbol for us.
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Astounded
Obvious
Rainbow
Flag
Symbol
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I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag, knowing that it's a safe place where I can be myself.
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Cities
Rainbow
Safe
Seeing
Love Myself World
Flag
Safe Place
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Anita Bryant had the effect of galvanizing the whole gay movement. She was somebody whom everybody could hate. She was easy to hate.
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Bryant
Gay Movement
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I came out because I fell in love. It wasn't a terrible, horrible, damn thing. I was in love with somebody, and I wanted to scream it from the rooftops.
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Damn
Horrible
Rooftops
Scream
Damn Thing
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I think the Rainbow Flag will survive forever, primarily because it's the perfect flag, regardless of whatever political meaning it may have or evolve to.
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Rainbow
Flag
Primarily
Regardless
Survive
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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 the art level: beautiful versus ugly.
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Confederate
Rainbow
Ugly
Versus
Love Art Beautiful
Flag
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Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history - the academic word for flag making and heraldry.
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Academic
Art History Science
Flag
Science History Art
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I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will. And flags are about proclaiming power, so it's very appropriate.
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Appropriate
Proclaiming
Power People Will
Flag
Symbol
Tribe
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When I was young, they thought I was from outer space. I was the only gay person they probably knew, and they struggled with that. Everybody knew I was gay. They just didn't want to talk about it.
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Outer Space
Struggled
Outer
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It's not so easy to be gay or even a woman in some places in the world, and in many countries, it's illegal to be gay. You can be put to death. It's a global struggle. A human rights struggle on a global scale.
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Death
Easy
Human Rights
Illegal
Rights
Struggle
Scale
Woman
Countries
Global
Places
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Once I was finally liberated from my Kansas background, the first thing I did was get a sewing machine, because it's 1972, and I have to look like Mick Jagger and David Bowie every single second. Taffeta jumpsuits.
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Bowie
Jagger
Liberated
Sewing
David
First Thing
Mick Jagger
The First Thing
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A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.
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Design
Rainbow
Soul
Torn
Why
Everyone
True
Belongs
Flag
Owns
Sense
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Harvey Milk was a friend of mine, an important gay leader in San Francisco in the '70s, and he carried a really important message about how important it was to be visible, how important it was to come out, and that was the single most important thing we had to do.
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Harvey
Milk
San Francisco
Visible
Carried
Francisco
Important Message
Most Important Thing
San
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In 1978, the first flag was organic everything. It did have eight colors: the six colors of the rainbow we see today plus hot pink and turquoise. But pretty quickly on I realized that I would never be able to satisfy the demand for them by hand-dying fabric and these colors.
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Demand
Eight
Fabric
Plus
Rainbow
Six
Turquoise
Colors
Flag
Organic
Pink
Quickly
Realized
Satisfy
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The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.
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Nature
Fit
Rainbow
Right Place
Sexuality
Really
Because
Ages
Part
Colors
Even
Place
Right
Races
See
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In 1978, when I thought of creating a flag for the gay movement, there was no other international symbol for us than the pink triangle, which the Nazis used to identify homosexuals in concentration camps. Even though the pink triangle was and still is a powerful symbol, it was very much forced upon us.
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Camps
Concentration
Flag
Forced
Gay Movement
Homosexuals
Identify
Pink
Symbol
Triangle
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