Before the rainbow flag, the pink triangle, used to mark gay people in Nazi Germany, was a symbol for the gay rights movement. In 1978, that changed when Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag.

PRIDE/C/10JUN98/EZ/JLT "Seam-master" Gilbert Baker in his studio amid some of the 500 rainbow flags which will festoon the City for the annual Gay Pride Parade. Baker is the original creator of ...

Where did that rainbow flag come from, and how did it come to symbolize gay pride and rights? The story is a touching one, involving a drag queen who would come to be known as “Busty Ross ...

The city had already held several annual Gay Freedom Day celebrations—which would eventually become known as Pride—in commemoration of the Stonewall uprising of 1969, when queers fought back ...

For over 40 years, the Rainbow Pride Flag has represented the LGBTQ community. ... In the 1970s, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California, ...

The traditional rainbow gay pride flag was first designed by artist and activist Gilbert Baker in 1978. After dropping a hot pink bar in 1979, ...

Almost 40 years after it first flew, the rainbow flag is continuing to evolve and be both celebrated and desecrated. This Pride Month, a celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ...

The LGBTQ+ community doesn't need your performative activism on our behalf. We are here, in spite of it all, and we have ...

The district is also considering removing wording in its anti-discrimination policies that explicitly list sexual orientation ...

Although Pride Month is over across the U.S., Portland is still rolling out the rainbow decor for the city’s festivities ...

The rainbow flag first rose to prominence when Harvey Milk, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the first openly gay politician in a major U.S. city, asked Baker to make a flag ...