Author: Gilbert Baker

Quotes

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

- Gilbert Baker

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.

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.

- Gilbert Baker

When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.

When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.

- Gilbert Baker

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

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

- Gilbert Baker

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

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

- Gilbert Baker

Anita Bryant is an important figure in gay history because she enraged a generation of people who got active.

Anita Bryant is an important figure in gay history because she enraged a generation of people who got active.

- Gilbert Baker

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.

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.

- Gilbert Baker

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.

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.

- 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 of the lie.

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.

- Gilbert Baker

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