It Belonged to All of Us: Gilbert Baker and the First Rainbow Flag
Drift off to sleep learning how the rainbow flag was made: in an attic, in trash cans, by thirty people with dye on their hands.
In June 1978, Gilbert Baker and around thirty volunteers hand-dyed a thousand yards of muslin on the top floor of a San Francisco community center and stitched two flags, each thirty feet by sixty. The eight stripes carried meanings, hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for magic and art, indigo for serenity, violet for spirit. On June 25 they rose at United Nations Plaza, and Baker said the crowd…
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