Gilbert Baker,creator of LGBT rainbow flag

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GNTLGNT

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....please don't think me stupid or naïve....I am curious-was Gilbert a gay man himself?....I only ask, because the irony of a straight individual designing such a powerful icon would be rich.....
This is what I could find, Scott:


Gilbert Baker was a soldier from Kansas, stationed in San Francisco at the start of the gay liberation movement.

When he was honorably discharged from the military, he decided to teach himself to sew.

“He was a drag queen,” explained his longtime friend Cleve Jones. “He sewed gowns and costumes.”

Soon he began sewing flags for gay and antiwar street marches.
 

GNTLGNT

The idiot is IN
Jun 15, 2007
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358,754
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Cambridge, Ohio
This is what I could find, Scott:


Gilbert Baker was a soldier from Kansas, stationed in San Francisco at the start of the gay liberation movement.

When he was honorably discharged from the military, he decided to teach himself to sew.

“He was a drag queen,” explained his longtime friend Cleve Jones. “He sewed gowns and costumes.”

Soon he began sewing flags for gay and antiwar street marches.
...thank you dear heart....