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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• Gilbert Baker:

  Harvey Milk was a friend of mine, an important gay leader in San Francisco in the '70s, and he carr

• Gilbert Baker:

  What the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us.

• Gilbert Baker:

  Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say - to get out

• Gilbert Baker:

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• Gilbert Baker:

  I think the Rainbow Flag will survive forever, primarily because it's the perfect flag, regardless

• Gilbert Baker:

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• Gilbert Baker:

  I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe

• Gilbert Baker:

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• Gilbert Baker:

  I was afraid my family would lock me up and give me electroshock. I was a screaming queen.

• Gilbert Baker:

  My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.