As we celebrate Pride and shine a light on the ongoing activism and achievements of the LGBTQIA+ community, we take a look at ...

In the summer of 1978, Gilbert Baker created a rainbow flag as a decoration for San Francisco’s Gay Freedom Day Parade. Now, 40 years later, the late artist and activist’s flag has become a ...

Gilbert Baker, artist who designed the Rainbow Flag, preparing for Gay Pride Week, the 30th anniversary of Stonewall on June 23, 1999. Robin Weiner/The Chronicle Gay Freedom Day parade San ...

The rainbow pride flag has been a universal symbol of LGBTQ pride and diversity for more than three decades, but it wasn’t ...

LGBTQ+ Pride Month is held each June to celebrate and commemorate of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and others. What ...

The history of the Gilbert Baker Pride flag In the 1970s, Harvey Milk – the first openly gay elected official in California – tasked activist Gilbert Baker to design a symbol of hope for the ...

Gilbert’s striped flag was inspired by past rebellions, including the American and French Revolution. "I thought a gay nation should have a flag too, to proclaim its own idea of power," he said ...

The history of the Gilbert Baker Pride flag In the 1970s, Harvey Milk – the first openly gay elected official in California – tasked activist Gilbert Baker to design a symbol of hope for the ...

The story of the rainbow flag is a lot more complicated than most tellings would suggest: It starts with an anti-gay ballot initiative and ends with accusations of a decades-long lie. First, the ...

Gilbert Baker was a soldier from Kansas, stationed in San Francisco at the start of the gay liberation movement. Gilbert Baker, creator of the gay pride rainbow flag, dies at 65 - Los Angeles Times ...