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Gilbert Baker, contriver of happy rights rainbow flag, dies during 65
- Updated: April 1, 2017
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg greets Gilbert Baker as they take partial in a annual Gay Pride march in New York City, Jun 30, 2002. PHOTO: REUTERS
Gilbert Baker, a San Francisco-based romantic and artist best famous for formulating a rainbow dwindle representing happy rights, has died during a age of 65, his long-time crony announced on amicable media on Friday.
“My beloved crony in a universe is gone. Clive Baker gave a universe a rainbow flag, he gave me forty years of adore and friendship,” Cleve Jones pronounced on Twitter.
My beloved crony in a universe is gone. Gilbert Baker gave a universe a Rainbow Flag; he gave me forty years of adore and friendship. pic.twitter.com/titd3XZ0zD
— Cleve Jones (@CleveJones1) Mar 31, 2017
No sum were immediately accessible on a means of Baker’s genocide or where he died. According to a autobiography posted on his central website, he had been vital in New York City.
Jones also tweeted, a print of Baker with former President Barack Obama, mouth-watering mourners to accommodate him underneath a rainbow dwindle in a Castro district of San Francisco on Friday dusk to remember his friend.
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Baker, who was innate in Kansas in 1951, was stationed in San Francisco in a early 1970s while portion in a US Army, during a start of a happy rights movement.
According to a website biography, Baker began creation banners for happy rights and anti-war protests, mostly during a ask of Harvey Milk, who would turn a initial plainly happy male inaugurated to open bureau in California when he won a 1977 competition for a chair on a San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Milk rode underneath a initial rainbow flags done by Baker during a San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade in Jun 1978, only months before a politician was murdered by a former city supervisor, a autobiography says.