Gilbert Baker

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gilbert Baker
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Jun 2, 1951(1951-06-02)
Age	73
Date Of Death	March 31, 2017, New York, NY
Birthplace	Chanute
Country	United States
Birth City	Kansas
Horoscope	Gemini

Gilbert Baker Biography

Gilbert Baker is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on June 2, 1951 in Chanute, Kansas, United States.

Gilbert Baker (June 2, 1951 – March 31, 2017) was an American artist, gay rights activist, and designer of the rainbow flag (1978), a worldwide symbol of LGBTQ pride. His flag became widely associated with LGBT rights causes, a symbol of gay pride that has become ubiquitous in the decades since its debut. California state senator Scott Wiener said Baker “helped define the modern LGBT movement”.

Baker served in the United States Army from 1970 to 1972. He was stationed as a medic in San Francisco at the beginning of the gay rights movement, and lived there as an openly gay man. After his honorable discharge from the military, he worked on the first marijuana legalization initiative California Proposition 19 (1972), and was taught to sew by his fellow activist Mary Dunn. He used his skill to create banners for gay-rights and anti-war protest marches. It was during this time that he met and became friends with Harvey Milk. He also joined the gay drag activist group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence stating, “At first it was glamorous and political, but when the Sisters became more organized, I became a tool of the right wing and raised money for Jerry Falwell”, referring to video and images of the group that were used for right-wing Christian efforts, “so I stopped.”

Gilbert Baker Net Worth

Gilbert Baker is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gilbert Baker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Baker was born on June 2, 1951, in Chanute, Kansas. He grew up in Parsons, Kansas, where his grandmother owned a women’s clothing store. His father was a judge and his mother was a teacher.

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In 2003, Baker and his Key West project were the subject of Rainbow Pride, a feature-length documentary by Marie Jo Ferron, bought by PBS National and debuting in New York on WNET. Baker recreated his original Rainbow Flag for the Academy-award-winning 2008 film Milk, and is shown being interviewed on one of the featurettes of the DVD release.

Facts & Trivia

Gilead Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Gilbert Baker celebrates birthday on June 2 of every year.

The design has undergone several revisions to remove two colors for expediency and later re-add those colors when they became more widely available. As of 2008, the most common variant consists of six stripes, with the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Baker referred to this version of the flag as the “commercial version”, because it came about due to practical considerations of mass production. Specifically, the rainbow flag lost its hot pink stripe when Baker approached the Paramount Flag Company to begin mass- producing them, and the hot pink fabric was too rare and expensive to include. The rainbow flag lost its turquoise stripe before the 1979 Gay Freedom Day Parade, as the committee organizing the parade wanted to fly the flag in two- halves, from the light poles along both sides of Market Street, so it became a six-striped flag with equal halves.

Why did Gilbert Baker create the pride flag?

In 2003, to commemorate the Rainbow Flag’s 25th anniversary , Baker created a Rainbow Flag that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean in Key West.

How did the rainbow flag become an LGBT symbol?

It goes back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, designed the first rainbow flag. Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S., to create a symbol of pride for the gay community.

Why is Gilbert Baker important?

World-famous political activist, designer and flag-maker Gilbert Baker (1951-2017) created the Rainbow Flag in 1978. Over the next four decades, his creation would become embraced across the world as the universal symbol of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement.

Was Gilbert Baker in the army?

A former U.S. military officer stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco , Gilbert Baker joined the San Francisco Gay Liberation Movement after his discharge.

Is Gilbert Baker alive?

March 31, 2017