#i love the gilbert pride flag sm

[night-creeps]

Oops scrolled the tags on that spencers mlm flag post and now i feel like shit

[agentdammers]

hello ozza! I just wanted to say I love your icon and especially your icon + url combination because every time you show up in my notifs I can't help but say oh hi gay milton dammers! hello my mutual gay milton dammers :) also the gilbert baker pride flag looks really nice with his color scheme honestly

hey victor!! Thanks sm man, i aim to be the gay milton rep we all deserve 😤 glad you think so tbh, i really loved the baker flag colours with him personally

(Fuckin love your whole aesthetic btw bud, absolute no-brainer instant follow!)

[dreamhot]

Hello! Happy June! It's Pride and I have a question (1/30)

The original Pride Flag was designed by Gilbert Baker at the request of Harvey Milk, with the first flags flying at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration on June 25, 1978.

It had 8 colours to begin with, but these changed throughout time [the hot pink was removed due to scarcity of fabric and the 7 colour design was changed to six to make designing banners for lamp posts easier/more symmetrical]

The hex codes of the original 8 colours are as follows: fc6cb4//fc0404//fc8c04//fcfc04// 048c04//04c4c4//44049c//8c048c

Which one is your favourite? (Alternatively, do you have a different colour you think would've worked better?)

Happy Pride 🌈 🎉

hello still in my offline vacation arc but i love these messages sm it's fun to get some history alongside the questions ...

and i'm a big fan of the particular shade of blue in the original, tho i admit that it's a bit bright value-wise when you look at the whole sequence LMAO it's sort of like how the purples on the bi and the ace flags might look a bit better swapped, yknow?

[notyrfinalgirl]

Hiiii 11 and 12 for the pride ask game?? 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

omg i’m so sorry i didn’t see this i’m blind asf

11- do you like your flags?

yes! i love the lesbian flag sm and as clashy as the nb flag can be i still think it’s pretty

12 - favorite flag (visually)

i’m a sucker for the bi flag bc i love all of those colors but my all time favorite visually is the gilbert baker flag

[drubblernews-blog]

New Post has been published on http://drubbler.com/2017/04/01/gilbert-baker-lgbt-rainbow-flag-creator-dies-aged-65/

Gilbert Baker, LGBT rainbow flag creator, dies aged 65

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Image caption Mr Baker created the LGBT rainbow flag in 1978

Gilbert Baker, a San-Francisco-based artist who created the rainbow flag as a symbol for the gay community, has died aged 65, US media report.

The San Francisco Chronicle said Mr Baker died in his sleep at his home in New York on Thursday night.

He initially designed an eight-colour flag in 1978 for the city’s gay freedom day, the precursor to the modern pride parade.

The rainbow flag has been raised in central San Francisco to honour him.

It is flying near Harvey Milk Plaza, named after America’s first openly gay politician.

Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black tweeted: “Rainbows weep. Our world is far less colourful without you, my love. Gilbert Baker gave us the rainbow flag to unite us. Unite again.”

California State Senator Scott Weiner said Mr Baker’s work “helped define the modern LGBT movement”.

“Rest in power, Gilbert,” he said.

Mr Baker’s original flag had eight colours, each representing a different aspect of humanity:

Pink – sexuality

Red – life

Orange – healing

Yellow- sunlight

Green – nature

Turquoise – art

Indigo – harmony

Violet – human spirit

Read more: The rise of the rainbow flag

It would later be reduced to six stripes, removing pink and indigo, and swapping blue for turquoise.

Mr Baker said he wanted to convey the idea of diversity and inclusion, using “something from nature to represent that our sexuality is a human right”.

In 2015, New York’s Museum of Modern Art acquired the flag for its design collection, calling it a “powerful design milestone”.

“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,” Mr Baker told the Museum in an interview.

“And flags are about proclaiming power, so it’s very appropriate.”

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