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Gilbert Baker (born June 2, 1951 in Chanute, Kansas) is an openly gay artist and civil rights activist who in 1978 designed the Rainbow Flag, sometimes also called the ''Pride Flag,'' ''Gay Pride Flag,'' ''LGBT Pride Flag'', or, since the early 1990s, ''Queer Flag'', that is often used as a symbol of pride in LGBT rights marches. ==Biography== Baker grew up in a small town in Kansas, and his grandmother owned a woman's clothing store. He served in the US Army from 1970 to 1972. He was stationed in San Francisco at the beginning of the gay rights movement. After his honorable discharge from the military, he taught himself to sew. 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. In 1979 he began work at Paramount Flag Company in San Francisco, then located on the southwest corner of Polk Street and Post Street in the Polk Gulch neighborhood. Baker has designed displays for Dianne Feinstein, the Premier of China, the presidents of France, Venezuela and the Philippines, the King of Spain, and many others. He also designed creations for numerous civic events and San Francisco Gay Pride. In 1984 he designed flags for the Democratic National Convention. In 1994 Baker moved to New York City, where he now lives, and continued his creative work and activism. That year he created the world's largest flag (at that time) in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gilbert Baker biography )〕 that took place in 1969. 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. After the commemoration, he sent sections of this flag to more than 100 cities around the world.〔 Due to his creation of the rainbow flag, Baker has used the drag queen name "Busty Ross".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gilbert Baker (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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