Per a statement, its creators included queer artists Gilbert Baker, Lynn Segerblom and James McNamara, as well as more than 30 volunteers. Now an internationally recognized symbol of LGBTQ pride and civil rights, the rainbow flag design was conceived by a group of activists in San Francisco in 1978. Earlier this month, the GLBT Historical Society Museum unveiled a glass case containing a rare artifact: a segment of the original rainbow gay pride flag, its colors as vibrant as ever. June 2021 Smithsonian Magazine article Long-Lost Fragment of First Rainbow Pride Flag Resurfaces After Four Decades The brilliantly colored banner�now on view in San Francisco�flew on 'Gay Freedom Day' in 1978Ī priceless piece of queer history has returned home to San Francisco, reports Ezra David Romero for KQED. Keywords: rainbow flag | gay pride | baker (gilbert) | steve (tyson) | international congress of flag makers | flag of the race | stripes: 8 | stripes: 7 | stripes: 6 | stripes: 5 | This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website History of the Gay Pride / Rainbow Flag Sexural Orientation Flags